Chantal dumped rain across central N.C. days after Gov. Stein vetoed a bill weakening climate goals. GOP lawmakers will ...

A Greensboro City Council member is the subject of a State Bureau of Investigation probe, The Assembly has learned. The investigation was launched two days after The Assembly ’s Greensboro newsletter, ...

This story is republished as part of our partnership with NOTUS. Republican Sen. Thom Tillis will not seek reelection, he announced Sunday, a stunning decision that leaves Republicans scrambling to ...

Hurricane Helene left Western North Carolina’s railways in disarray, causing $345 million in damage and halting all rail traffic west of Hickory. But by late March, repairs were either underway or ...

Programming Note: We are taking our annual summer publishing pause this week and will be back with new stories on July 14. In the meantime, I’ll be recirculating some of our best work from the past ...

The first text came a day after the deadliest police ambush in Charlotte’s history, when four law enforcement officers were killed and four wounded as they tried to serve a warrant at an East ...

On a Wednesday morning in early May, Ruben Wright, a tall man with piercing dark-brown eyes, walked into the visitors’ lounge at Neuse Correctional Institution and quickly went to work. He grabbed a ...

The UNC System announced Thursday that it is working with public university systems in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas to create a new accreditor called the Commission for ...

Programming Note: We are taking our annual summer publishing pause this week and will be back with new stories on July 14. In the meantime, I’ll be recirculating some of our best work from the past ...

The Battleship North Carolina has sailed through storms before. As a warship serving in World War II, she survived Typhoon Cobra, a massive 1944 storm that sank several ships in the Pacific Fleet. And ...

The first meeting of the new Republican-controlled State Board of Elections quickly turned awkward. After years of bills, ballot measures, and court battles, Republicans gained a 3-2 advantage on the ...

In the spring of his senior year at Duke University in 1994, Jay Woffington figured he was headed to law school. Then he took Tony Brown’s leadership class. Brown prodded Woffington relentlessly about ...