The Assembly Network has been recognized with 39 awards from the North Carolina Press Association this year. The list includes The Assembly‘s fourth consecutive win for the Duke ...

Assembly Members get full access to The Caucus, our twice-weekly politics newsletter. Quality journalism demands significant investment. At The Assembly, we hire seasoned reporters, editors, and ...

More than 2,600 people sued Chemours and DuPont over PFAS contamination in North Carolina. After eight years, the trial won’t ...

Christina Koch hung a poster of the Apollo 8 “Earthrise” photo in her dorm room. Now, she is credited with taking “Earthset” ...

The UNC System gets its long-awaited enrollment funding, schools can shield student disciplinary records, and out-of-state NC Promise tuition goes up under the spending plan.

The budget funds many of the governor's priorities, but it strips his power to make appointments to several state boards.

It’s a time of unprecedented increases in electricity prices. Since 2021, prices spiked 40% on average around the country. No other decade has seen electricity prices increase so much, so quickly.

Republican leaders released their much-anticipated state budget on Tuesday morning. We’ll have more to report as it inches toward the finish line this week, but here are eight new developments that ...

James Richardson, a Greenville man serving two life sentences for a 2009 drive-by double homicide he maintains he did not commit, spent much of the past year in a legal limbo familiar to many North ...

On July 2, North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature announced that it had finally passed its first budget in three years, making it the last state in the nation to do so. For months, no one ...

North Carolina is one of only seven states that completely prohibit marijuana. But it’s never been easier to get high. “The joke in the industry is that North Carolina is actually the best ...

In October 2024, Person County announced that Microsoft had purchased 1,350 acres in Woodsdale Township. A vast expanse of fields, forest, and creeks located near the border of North Carolina and ...