The North Carolina Press Association will honor winners at a September 10 dinner, including members of our teams across the state.

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 ...

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.

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” ...

This is excerpted from They Stole A City: Wilmington’s White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy and published with permission of Penguin Press. The campaign to reinstate white ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...