Back in the ’90s — you remember, when the dot-com bubble pushed your stock portfolio so high that early retirement seemed right around the corner — Congress and Bill Clinton decided the time had come to overhaul the nation’s telecommunications laws.

I’m not a smoker, but it wasn’t for lack of trying.

A year ago, Pharmaceutical Product Development Inc. CEO Fred Eshelman couldn’t have been more effusive in his praise for the North Carolina Research Campus, which billionaire David Murdock is developing in Kannapolis.

Nearly 10 years after Hurricane Floyd flooded dozens of hog-waste lagoons, Tar Heel leaders are still looking for ways to avoid a repeat.

In 1936, during the Great Depression, a High Point company that built and renovated streetcars started a new line of business.

United States Golf Association Executive Director David Fay doesn’t know exactly how much his organization will save by holding the men’s and women’s U.S. Open golf tournaments in Pinehurst on back-to-back weeks in 2014.

Don’t demolish the Dillsboro Dam. That’s the message Jackson County commissioners sent Duke Energy Corp.

It’s usually sunrise, not midmorning, when the Silverado leaves Carolina Beach for waters around Frying Pan Shoals.

Slowly, it seems, Americans are opening their wallets, swiping their plastic and buying more.

The Business North Carolina magazine staff pays attention to business and the people important to the state’s stories,” the judges — members of the University of Missouri journalism faculty — said.