Burmese export Philip Maung found the American dream making sushi for high-end grocery stores. His company has won accolades from the White House.

Most of the state’s major corporations apparently believe the referendum on gay marriage is none of their business.

Gearino: It’s always fun when tax season coincides with an election cycle.

Last summer, the N.C. Department of Commerce asked Andrew Tate, president and CEO of Henderson County Partnership for Economic Development, to join Project Fishbowl. So began the state and county’s combined wooing of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.

When Bob Geolas was a boy, his father took him to see construction at Research Triangle Park. Now he's the president and CEO of the Research Triangle Park Foundation of North Carolina.

Beginning this year, state law mandates that public utilities generate a portion of their power with swine and poultry waste, which can be converted to methane that fuels turbines.

Queen Bee can’t talk, but it has quite a tale to tell, and Edenton-based Regulator Marine Inc., which manufactured the 26-foot center-console boat, hopes that story will strengthen the company’s recent resurgence.

The Charlotte energy sector, which President Barack Obama has repeatedly praised, features such behemoths as Duke Energy Corp. and Siemens Energy Inc., a subsidiary of Germany-based Siemens AG. But economic-development officials are quick to admit its biggest flaw: a lack of startups.

Mooneyham: On this, there can be no debate: Beverly Perdue made history.

Data on how successfully, not how often, hospitals treat their patients will drive dollars under health-care reform.

Up Front: Business North Carolina compiled its own list of Tar Heel state top hospitals this year for the first time.