Interim City Manager Roger LeDuc at first thought the chances of revitalizing Hotel Aiken and adding a public parking garage would be slim. “When (local hotel owner) Neel Shah and I first started talking about it, it was just kind…

I jumped in my car early one recent Sunday morning. My destination: Ventura, California, a picturesque tourist town on the California coast, a major destination for city day trippers. But I wasn’t out for a wine-sniffing spin at the region’s…

Subjects: Leisure travel (356) Travel (779) Places: Virginia (527)   MONTROSS, Virginia — By next spring, people planning to visit the Northern Neck or simply searching for an interesting outing should have a new resource to make travel there more…

BJ Leiderman records vocals for a song off his upcoming album “Natural Public Leiderman” inside the church studio at Echo Mountain Recording Studios earlier this month(Photo: Colby Rabon (colbyrabon@gmail.com)) Asheville has long been a bastion of cultural richness. From the…

Handmade Greek food is featured at the annual Palm Sunday luncheon hosted by the Greek Orthodox Ladies Philoptochos Society, set for 11 a.m.-2 p.m. March 29 at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 227 Cumberland Ave.(Photo: Citizen-Times file photo) Email information…

Senate leader Phil Berger, left, and Gov. Pat McCrory(Photo: Special to the Citizen-Times) Tags Pat McCrory Republican Party RALEIGH Here is today’s legislative weather report: Storm clouds and increasingly higher winds between the Legislative Building and the governor’s office with…

The restaurant industry sometimes asks its employees to be professional jugglers. Now some restaurant workers are finding out it also pays to have a grasp of labor law.(Photo: USA TODAY) ASHEVILLE – Alia Todd, a restaurant worker and mother of…

I always suspected that being a city planner only required a degree in common sense. I spent the past two weeks proving just how wrong I was. At the urging of a friend last week, I purchased the game “Cities:…

Room count Charleston hotel room inventory by geographic area: North Charleston: 7,179 Peninsula: 3,731 Mt. Pleasant: 2,148 West Ashley: 1,569 Berkeley: 1,307 Beaches: 1,117 Dorchester: 724 Total: 17,775 Source: Charleston Area Convention and Visitors Bureau The first 133 keys for…

Long before the age of Internet lists and online travel magazines, people came to Asheville and Western North Carolina for the intrinsic natural beauty — diverse wildlife, clean air, lush forests, clear waters, ancient mountains and one of the world’s…