Per NCAA rules, college basketball programs are allowed to take an overseas trip once every four years. While there are the on-court benefits of playing exhibitions against teams from other parts of the world and having ten practices before departure,…

TAMPA — Demand for hotel rooms in Hillsborough County is outstripping availability, allowing the lodging industry to raise rates, but retain good occupancy numbers, according to Visit Tampa Bay, the company that promotes the county as a tourist and convention…

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For many years, the Playhouse, which is designated as North Carolina’s State Theater but receives no state funds, was a quiet but powerful driver of the local tourism economy. That changed when previous management of the theater made some bad…

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church opened its tall, wooden doors to the world Sunday, embracing strangers who walked in from the street or tuned in from home for the first worship service since a white gunman…

James Nix jnix@independenttribune.com Kannapolis buys more property The vacant K-Town Furniture building in Kannapolis. The City of Kannapolis is buying the property in a move to gain more control over the development of the downtown area. Posted: Saturday, June 20,…

Some lawmakers have renewed calls to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds after the U.S. and South Carolina flags were lowered at the dome this week out of respect for the Charleston shooting victims – while the battle…

The Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — With millions of extra dollars for tourism, West Virginia is kicking off a marketing campaign to sell its story to surrounding states. On Friday, state Tourism Commissioner Amy Shuler Goodwin announced the campaign…

BEIJING— Often the target of U.S. human rights accusations, China wasted little time returning such charges following the shooting at a historic black church in South Carolina that left nine people dead. Elsewhere, the attack renewed perceptions that Americans have…