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The state’s best employers shower their staffs with various perks to show appreciation and encourage loyalty. Want to learn paddleboarding?

Known for relentless polling, passion for Democratic politics and a raconteur’s spirit, Raleigh businessman Dean Debnam has also built a company that lends a hand to workers across the globe.

At a lectern in dark suit and pale-blue tie, he sounds like a doctor addressing medical students on a spring day at Winston-Salem’s Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. “If we have optimal [...]

With more than a billion dollars worth of projects and improvements planned or underway, North Carolina’s top hospitals are looking ahead to accommodate a growing population and stay at the [...]

Early one February afternoon during a snowstorm that kept Watauga County schools closed for a week, 11 of 16 bowling lanes at Boone’s TEN High Country Lanes were filled with children and their [...]

For a neighborhood bustling with new office buildings, apartments and restaurants, SouthPark’s future seems to have a lot of people worried. Increasing traffic congestion and a layout that [...]

Former Greensboro Mayor Jim Melvin and other Triad executives are exuberant about the North Carolina Railroad’s $13 million purchase of about 875 acres in Randolph County, completing a giant [...]

Doctors complain a lot about insurance companies, so they might as well own one. In North Carolina, they do: Raleigh-based Medical Mutual Insurance sells medical malpractice insurance to about [...]

Salt Life decals, stuck on everything from rusty pickups to shiny sports cars, evoke a certain image — and it’s probably not the muddy Cape Fear River flowing through Fayetteville. Yet Salt [...]

Fifteen companies that ranked at the top of the state’s tech industry in 2001 remain vital forces.