Americans getting an early start on the Memorial Day weekend found that gasoline prices again sprinted to a new record high overnight, reaching a national average above $3.83 a gallon. Some analysts predict gas will break past $4 as early as next week.
Despite buying plane tickets weeks or months ago, many travelers this summer will shell out even more money when it comes to getting off the ground.
ep. Mel Watt said Wednesday he would push forward with legislation curbing insurers' ability to weigh whether people pay their credit card bills on time in determining if they get good car insurance rates.
Duke Energy made its first foray into solar power a big one, saying it will buy all the power generated by the nation's largest solar farm of its kind, to be built in Davidson County.
A nonprofit group wants to buy as many as 25 vacant houses to help build homeownership in Peachtree Hills, a Charlotte neighborhood that is one of the worst-hit by the foreclosure crisis.
I chatted with the genius sprite of PBS, Ken Burns, on the rooftop patio of the uptown Mint on Tuesday night.
South End is becoming one of those places you must visit when you're in Charlotte. It has design-oriented businesses, antique stores, restaurants, apartments, condos and light-rail transit stops. But newcomers don't realize that most of this has emerged in just over a decade.
