Two camps of birds huddle on rooftops next to the Kure Beach pier, seagulls and pigeons. Their ruffled feathers make them appear bigger than their actual size. They are staying warm in the morning, on a late-winter day. I am…
Category: Tourism
Art deco hotel just the start of new-look downtown Durham
DURHAM, N.C. – You would be forgiven for mistaking Durham’s newest hotel for an art museum. That’s because the 21c Museum Hotel, as the name indicates, is a bit of both. In fact, the front desk alone is surrounded by…
Tagged with: Raleigh
Bluerock Residential Growth REIT (BRG) Announces Acquisition of Class AA …
NEW YORK, March 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Bluerock Residential Growth REIT, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BRG) (“BRG” or “the Company”) announced today that it has acquired through a joint venture a newly-constructed, class AA apartment community in Charlotte, North Carolina known…
Tagged with: Charlotte
Kid Rock books 6 DTE shows, reprises $20 ticket plan
Kid Rock has announced summer 2015 tour plans.(Photo: 7-10 Music) Story Highlights DTE shows set for Aug. 7-15, with room for more Ticket prices are $20 for summer tour, following success in 2013 Seats go on sale Feb. 24, release…
Tagged with: Boone NC
Editorial: Don’t miss the deadline to comment on drilling
Local News Gullah coalition to present history series on St. Helena
Tagged with: North Carolina
Filmmaker charged with tax-credit fraud
Here’s a story the Georgia Department of Economic Development will eye with interest. From the Baton Rouge, La. Advocate: “A Baton Rouge filmmaker on Tuesday became the latest person charged with ripping off Louisiana’s movie tax credit program, the latest…
Tagged with: Raleigh
Former Gator Dan Cross teaches life skills through basketball
Dan Cross was nearly flunking out of high school when he had an epiphany. “I realized that, ‘Hey, I’m good at basketball, but the only way I can play is if I make good grades,’” said Cross, a former Florida…
Tagged with: Charlotte
Freeze on seasonal workers halted
North Carolina seafood processors and other industries across the nation that rely on importing seasonal workers have been given a temporary reprieve that should enable them to bring in additional foreign workers over the short term. Moves that enabled the…
Tagged with: North Carolina
Buncombe legislators would allow earlier school start – Asheville Citizen
A parents walks her son to Johnston Elementary School for the first day of class in Buncombe County on Aug. 20, 2014.(Photo: Katie Bailey/bkbailey@citizen-times.com) RALEIGH – Buncombe County’s three House members have mounted an effort to exempt Buncombe and Asheville…
Tagged with: Asheville
Arizona park rebounds after years of border crime
By ASTRID GALVANAssociated Press ORGAN PIPE CACTUS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Ariz. (AP) – For over a decade, armed drug traffickers were so prevalent in this vast desert monument that visitors were barred from entering more than half of it. One law…
Tagged with: Raleigh
Top