This Old State

What exactly was Gov. Mike Easley trying to say when he called “fantastic” the legislature’s passage of a bill that could cost $20 million m...

Politicians are having too much fun with Appalachian State University's win over then-No. 5-ranked Michigan on Sept. 1. Monday night th...

Here’s a note from Doug Gillis of Charlotte, vice president of the Carolinas Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation, with encouraging w...

We’d see her lurking in the woods, hanging behind the rhododendrons and mountain laurel that dot the hillsides of Belcher Mountain up in the...

Former state Sen. Marshall Rauch of Gastonia has an athletic family. He came South after serving in World War II to play basketball at Duke ...

It's no secret North Carolina has offered financial incentives of various kinds to companies considering moving here and to existing com...

I’m not a betting man, but if I were, I’d wager the South Forty that Gov. Mike Easley is about to veto that ill-considered $40 million over ...