State to get housing help WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is providing $3 billion to unemployed homeowners facing foreclosure in the nation’s toughest job markets.
Outer Banks sees tourists returning CURRITUCK — Cars jamming coastal highways and lodgings booked almost to capacity signal that tourists have returned to the Outer Banks this summer.
Growers cultivating businesses CHARLOTTE — In shallow trays of organic soil at her greenhouse in Harrisburg, onetime real estate agent Kate Brun is cultivating a business: growing and selling microgreens, tiny herbs and veget...
City hopes TV series boosts tourism dollars WILMINGTON — When number-crunchers try to calculate how much money a television or film production brings to Wilmington, most things are easy to count.
Trucking companies see growth CHARLOTTE — The phone rings at Atlantic Trucking Co. a couple hundred times a day lately, and terminal manager Lee Montgomery occasionally logs 12-hour shifts, taking orders and scanning rate qu...
N.C. county OKs bid for 400-job Caterpillar plant WINSTON - SALEM (AP) — North Carolina officials are assembling a package of tax breaks and other incentives worth up to $75 million to lure a new Caterpillar Inc. factory that would employ nearl...
Universities explore nanoscience GREENSBORO — As an undergrad at the University of Massachusetts, physics major Demitri Balabanov did research in condensed matter, an area he said has significant overlap with nanoscience.
Much-anticipated bakery opens DURHAM — Soon after Scratch, a new counter-service bakery in downtown Durham, opened to the public for the first time on a Friday morning in early June, Matt Lardie strode in: Customer No. 1.
Popular golf attire comes from N.C. CARY — They remember the mints. When boxes of golf shirts and shorts and other high-end menswear are shipped from the Peter Millar office and warehouse, the packing list includes mints.
N.C. rate down, but signs weak RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s unemployment rate improved in May for the third straight month, this time to 10.3 percent, but the boost came mostly from a gain in government hiring, the state E...
Company expanding in three N.C. counties RALEIGH (AP) — With companies hiring few workers in the prolonged recession, economic developers are trying to create jobs by offering tax breaks and other incentives they might not have a few y...
Swamp wood means money CAMDEN , N.C. — Jeff Leitch was on the hunt. Carrying a chain saw over his shoulder, he carefully trudged through brush and along slippery logs in a cleared-out swamp near South Mills.
JobsNow program offers hope GREENSBORO — A year of applying for jobs yielded no results for Reidsville resident Linda Watlington. No jobs. No prospects.
