David Mildenberg

Solving real-world problems in innovative ways is the path to fortune, and picking up behind one's dog is definitely real-world. So it shouldn't be surprising, perhaps, that Dan Spangler's Rinse-A-Poo was the inaugural winner of the N.C. Small Business Center Network's recent competition for startups.

Duke Health is making a landmark push into the Charlotte area, seeking state approval to partner with CaroMont Health to add two Mecklenburg County hospitals.

More than a year ago, the State Employees Credit Union loaned its president, Leigh Brady, $26.5 million to buy what's called split-dollar life insurance coverage as an executive benefit.

The battle between the N.C. State Health Plan and Atrium Health escalated Wednesday when the plan said the largest N.C. system's hospitals and clinics in the Charlotte and Triad would be deemed out of network for 2027.

New Truist Financial CEO Mike Lyons revamped the Charlotte-based bank's consumer and small business leadership today and jettisoned one of the key digital initiatives of his predecessor CEO.

In November, voters in the congressional district covering much of Charlotte will choose between an 80-year-old incumbent and a 29-year-old finance bro.

When a new CEO shows up for his first earnings conference call with investment analysts, he or she can be unusually candid about past decisions and strategic changes.

A couch potato's dream: Residents living within six miles of seven Charlotte-area Walmart stores can now receive as much as 2.5 pounds of goods via drone deliveries from the world's biggest retailer.

Greensboro's Triad Business Bank launched more criticism of the plan by Durham-based M&F Bancorp, to merge into a larger African-American-owned peer, Optus Financial of Columbia, South Carolina.

The N.C. State Health Plan's board is meeting Tuesday to address what it calls a “historically low cash balance” and wants to dip into a reserve fund to help boost its solvency for the rest of this year.