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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than 40 years, North Carolina’s politicians worked, ate, and slept at the Sir Walter hotel in Raleigh.

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.

Congress expanded a federal financial aid program to help students pay for job-training certifications. But only a tiny fraction of North Carolina programs meet the requirements. Join thousands of ...

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 ...

How a small group of white men engineered the violent 1898 overthrow of Wilmington’s duly elected multiracial government.