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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. Dave Masters could no longer ignore the storm as trees cracked and the swollen river roared. It was dark outside, but through the ...

The Tar Heels played Texas Christian University in Ireland in August. (Jody Demay-Davies/SPP/Sipa USA via AP Images) ...

An ethics panel had concluded the Western North Carolina Republican behaved inappropriately toward two young female staffers.