“Since we’ve begun hosting the Blue Ridge Breakaway, we’ve had two types of new visitors to Lake Junaluska outside of the Breakaway, and those are people that come for the day just to ride the Blue Ridge Breakaway routes, and…

By Tim Rickard tim.rickard@greensboro.com 20150922g_nws_tourists_art.jpg LOCALS ONLY If a study of Tweets is to be believed, these cities would rather you stay home. Tourist-hating cities 1. Arlington, Texas 2. New York 3. Las Vegas 4. Boston 5. New Orleans 6.…

West Virginia’s Division of Tourism hadn’t done any in-depth research about who visits the state and why for over ten years. “There is not one part of this country or this world that somebody doesn’t know the song Country Road,”…

When Chinese President Xi Jinping and a delegation of government and business leaders visit Washington this week, our star turn won’t be limited to Boeing and Microsoft. This is a rare opportunity to showcase the state as a good place…

Dive Brief: Three pre-designated Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) off the North Carolina coast have been advanced by the U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) toward the leasing process that would begin ocean wind development. N.C. Department of…

A rail map of South Carolina shows the state criss-crossed in nearly every direction by active railroad lines. But only three carry people rather than freight. All three of those passenger routes traverse South Carolina in a general north-south orientation,…

When Chinese President Xi Jinping and a delegation of government and business leaders visit Washington this week, our star turn won’t be limited to Boeing and Microsoft. This is a rare opportunity to showcase the state as a good place…

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Few teams could understand the uncertainty going through the Illinois locker room once the school fired coach Tim Beckman a week before the season. North Carolina, who host the Illini on Saturday, has two key…

Vera Ann Myers has been busy booking birthday parties, company picnics and a pair of weddings. Her staff at Myers Pumpkin Patch are setting up craft stations and picking produce, a required task “to meet the demands for our busiest…

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Duke followed Northwestern’s lead in building a competitive football program at an academically elite private school in a power conference. Now the Blue Devils want to follow the Wildcats back into the Top 25. No. 23…