We broke down the 10 North Carolina races that are expected to be competitive, consequential, or interesting—or all three.

Ahead of the midterm election, we broke down the must-watch races this year. Here are the rest of our top 26 for ‘26.

Under normal circumstances, the 11th Congressional District shouldn’t be competitive. Donald Trump carried it with 54.2% of the vote in 2024—a stronger showing than he had in any congressional ...

The country’s only state-funded agency devoted to investigating post-conviction innocence claims has survived an attempt by state Senate Republicans to abolish it last year. And it has a new name.

Three college guys used to hang out at a house a few blocks from the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Two of them lived there; the third was a close friend who lived at his ...

This story is part of The Assembly’s investigation into North Carolina hemp. Learn more here. Proposals to regulate North Carolina’s hemp industry have tended to share several features. They limit ...

This story is published through our partnership with NOTUS. North Carolina Republicans want newly confirmed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s attention. All 10 Republicans in North ...

This story has been updated to reflect the amount of Christine Pierre’s settlement. A Charlotte man filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging that two police officers wrongfully arrested him and his ...

It was windy and cold outside but stuffy in the fellowship hall where the candidates prepared to preach to primary voters. A crowd of about 40 shuffled into Little Rock AME Zion Church, one of ...

Update: Gov. Josh Stein signed off on Kiger’s nomination minutes after Tuesday’s voting session. On Tuesday, North Carolina Republicans were without a new member they had planned to seat: Dan Kiger, a ...

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 ...

This past January, my partner and I were sitting in our garage, drinking coffee and enjoying the predictable choreography of a Tuesday morning in our quiet neighborhood: cars warming up in driveways, ...