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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

As Anita Earls runs for re-election to the state Supreme Court, here's what her dissents tell us about her judicial philosophy.

In N.C. and nationwide, boys are more likely to be held back than girls. Black boys are retained at more than twice the rate of white boys.

The GOP congressional candidate bet on her own campaign, according to a settlement agreement with the online prediction market.