No stranger to big tournaments, Pinehurst No. 2 will make history in 2014 with two U.S. Opens in two weeks played there.

Up Front: Donald Trump woos to make a favorable impression of his new Mooresville course.

Donald Trump says his name is a brand worth billions. And the value it creates for his golf courses is priceless.

Though demand for their booze is booming, the owners of Asheville Distilling Co. have discovered that trying to change distribution laws that date to the end of Prohibition is enough to drive a person to drink.

It’s where good vibrations from an Asheville studio’s special environment and unique equipment wind up.

Moog Music, the famed maker of synthesizers, has grown and thrived in Asheville.

The Atlantic Coast Conference continues to change, with Notre Dame and Louisville entering the conference and Maryland departing.

Up Front: Golf, for most of us, is hardly ever about the golf.

A Wilmington real-estate project that was undeveloped and unfunded is under construction and flush with Chinese cash, thanks to a foreign-investor program offered by U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services.

Top golf courses: Once under a mountain of debt, a golf development near Sylva has a new owner, new business model and new hope.

Top golf courses: Annual ranking of the Tar Heel state's best golf courses.

Top golf courses: Tom Fazio might be North Carolina’s most esteemed course designer, but even he had to adjust to life after the recession.

A UNC Charlotte economist says a minor-league ballpark in uptown Charlotte would generate $66.4 million and create 749 jobs in Mecklenburg County if it’s open by 2014. 

Martin Marietta launched an unsolicited bid in December for Birmingham, Ala.-based Vulcan, which is suing Martin Marietta, contending that its use of confidential information in an unfriendly takeover bid was the pits.

A bid to bring minor-league baseball to the banks of the Cape Fear River in downtown Wilmington struck out with voters in November, when they rejected the use of public money to build a $37 million stadium for an Atlanta Braves affiliate.

Superstorm Sandy was a nasty trick for the East Coast, but what it brought to North Carolina’s mountains was a treat for the ski industry.

Durham-based BioSignia Inc. says it can tame health-care increases for employers through its Web-based software that generates employee health assessments and the recent acquisition of a company that creates wellness programs

The business side of the Charlotte Bobcats gets a bounce from a season so lousy it set an NBA record.

Cover story: The ACC must run up the score with its TV football deals to stay in the game.

Comedian Louis C.K. made headlines in June when he announced tickets for his fall stand-up tour would be sold exclusively through his website. Rolling Stone speculated that the artist-controlled model might offer a new way of doing business for traveling entertainers of all stripes. But Travis Janovich, the founder and CEO of Morrisville-based Etix.com Inc. — the ticket platform C.K. uses to process sales — isn’t so sure the comedian’s gambit signals a sea change.