The timber industry is challenging the sustainable forestry certification of the LEED green-building program state by state.

In some working-class neighborhoods with cheap housing, the banks actually lose money on a foreclosure. So it’s cheaper to do nothing.

Struggling N.C. county lures Google facility with incentives. Were they worth it?

North Carolina is taking a hard line against kids who bully teachers online. And every month New York Tech Meetup sells out in just four minutes…and the theater's a big one at NYU. Venture capitalists are here along with engineers, designers, and start ups both theoretical and already online.

North Carolina community colleges work with local companies on which job skills to teach students.

Two decades after he moved to North Carolina's Research Triangle from Russia, Dmitiri Moundous started a new business called Alera Labs, and his son Gene, is among his first employees. One intends to vote. The other…

Cotton grower thinks immigration reform will help farm workers become upwardly mobile.

Undecided voters in Florida and North Carolina share what their greatest concerns are in the upcoming election.

North Carolina's legislature put aside the latest predictions of rising sea levels, for coastal planning purposes, in favor of more study. Long-term predictions of a three-foot rise by 2010 could needlessly hurt development, critics said.