Welcome to The Assembly’s 2026 Election Guide. Below, you will find a tool to see a sample ballot for the upcoming election tailored to your district, with biographies of the candidates written by our ...

It was a humid night in July, and the patrons of Atomic Clock Brewing looked at me like I’d lost my mind when I asked if they knew who Dolly Parton was. Of course they knew Dolly: her charity, her ...

An activist’s lawsuit over a 2024 cyberstalking arrest raises questions about the state’s efforts to criminalize online harassment.

When Destiny Curby joined the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office in 2023, she dreamed of becoming a detective. She often joked that she wanted to be like Olivia Benson, the fictional investigator in Law ...

Universities like UNC-Chapel Hill major cuts to research funding, but the pipeline for new grants is shrinking. Researchers have been left in limbo.

Nash County is home to three state legislative races that could make or break a GOP supermajority in North Carolina.

Neither of North Carolina's Senate candidates is facing the scrutiny on the campaign trail that a one-on-one forum might raise.

Two years into legalization, the gaming industry considers North Carolina a big success. But what residents are getting is not what was promised—and it’s dangerously addictive. As the composition of ...

After hiring Bill Belichick and Michael Malone, the price of Tar Heel sports is going up. But it’s not clear how much, or if revenues are following suit.

If there was ever a moment that best encapsulated Chapel Hill, it unfolded Wednesday morning: A protest of a few hundred demonstrators sandwiched between the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity house and a ...

When Alex Sink was a little girl growing up in Mount Airy in the 1950s and ‘60s, her grandmother had a rule: no Siamese twins talk. “We were under strict orders not to say anything about it,” Sink ...