The Great American State Fair is open through July 10. (Patrick B. Ruddy for the White House/Flickr) While plans for a state fair appear innocuous—how controversial can cows and cotton candy be?—as ...

Black Mountain College Studies Building seen across Lake Eden, shortly after completion in 1942. (North Carolina Museum of Art, Black Mountain College Research Project) The first clinic to treat an ...

The plan calls for between 5,500 and 6,500 new housing units to be spread across the site, 30 percent of which will be affordable, and a total of 6,000 garage parking spaces. (Courtesy District of ...