The U.S. and North Carolina “economies” have enjoyed 2018.

A pop-up arts, crafts and gifts establishment is open downtown – and the sights and sounds of the place are quite different from any other in the Harbor of Hospitality.

Annalisa Morgan, the first woman ever to serve as a regional executive for BB&T in the Albemarle, doesn’t shy away from the moniker “pioneer.” 

"I feel empowered, definitely," Morgan said of being the bank’s first female top executive in the region. "It feels good…

Candace Godfrey is meticulous.

A regional bank already with a commercial lending office in Elizabeth City is planning to open a full-service bank along the Halstead Boulevard Extended corridor.

ROANOKE RAPIDS — A Greenville-area couple who purchased the former Randy Parton Theater hosted a grand-reopening Saturday night with a Veterans Day salute featuring country rock favorites The Charlie Daniels Band.

CAMDEN — One of the most visible service stations in Camden County has apparently closed.

Charlotte Jones said knowledge gained through the years suggests that women whose shoe sizes are 10 and up can’t find fashionable and stylish footwear.

Jones said she’s seeking to correct this with a new business, The Shoe Rakk, located in the Virginia Dare Arcade along East Main Street.…

Armed with new tax credits, the developer renovating the former Weatherly Candy Factory and an adjacent office building into condominiums should be able to begin the work within the next four to six weeks, Elizabeth City’s downtown director said last week.

Ross Naddei, founder and CEO of MegaPulse Australia joined representatives of Edenton and Chowan County, the NC East Alliance and Sound Bank to announce on Friday his decision to locate the company’s North American operations in a business incubator on the 2nd floor of the bank in downtown…