Painter, carpenter, mover, landscaper — Juan Lopez has truly become a jack of all trades during his eight years in Carrboro.

My dad is part of the baby boom generation and, like all boomers, he is staring down retirement. But with a down economy and under-developed retirement nest egg, my father is not sure when he can retire. How long can a person work before they can't anymore?

The last decade has brought many changes to NC's tobacco industry but one man continues his family's tobacco farming tradition.

Use this interactive graphic to explore the change in size of each of North Carolina's industries.

North Carolina has yet again come to national attention. In the June 4 episode of The Colbert Report, host Stephen Colbert satirically described Replacement House Bill 819, which rejects sea level rise predictions by the Coastal Resources Commission’s Science Panel.