The Wilmington and Beaches Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) launched a campaign this month to market Wilmington as a fly-in destination to Atlanta area residents. The campaign, which officially began Feb. 1, includes digital marketing components, public relations efforts and…

Posted Feb. 17, 2015 at 9:56 a.m. Coming with the wind: Leases for turbines off Carolinas could come in 2016 Published: 2015-02-17 09:56:00 Updated: 2015-02-17 09:56:00 Wind power Related Blog Posts Advocacy group report: Offshore wind projects would drive job…

RALEIGH — George Reynolds Jr. of Moore County has been named the National Alliance on Mental Illness North Carolina’s Crisis Intervention Team Champion of the Year. The award is given to a recipient who excels in the CIT’s fundamental mission,…

(CNN)There’s no doubt that Boston owns the bragging rights for the winter of 2015. Still, that’s little comfort to the folks in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia, where ice and snow were glazing roads and knocking down power lines…

Compiled by Nina C. Ayoub ANTHROPOLOGY The Land of Weddings and Rain: Nation and Modernity in Post-Socialist Lithuania by Gediminas Lankauskas (University of Toronto Press; 352 pages; US$85 hardcover, US$36.95 paperback). Discusses both civil and religious ceremonies in a study…

Every weekday from now until Selection Sunday (and every day in March) will feature analysis of the previous night plus a quick look at games with the potential to impact the final NCAA tournament field of 68. Davidson: The Wildcats…

  World Bulletin / News Desk Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu would be visiting Pakistan on 17-18 February 2015. He would be accompanied by a high- level delegation, including several Cabinet Ministers and senior government officials. A representative delegation of…

The North Carolina Aquarium Society has once again — as it did last year and the year before — received the top billing of four stars in the United States as the most effective and efficient charity among the nation’s…

East Carolina University archivists are in the middle of a yearlong project to catalogue everything from film reels to financial statements from more than 600 outdoor theaters across the nation. ECU’s Special Collections Division at Joyner Library is processing the…

Local/State Bald eagle population soars in the Triangle