These are The Assembly stories that made the biggest waves this year, from beach shades to porn shop allegations to mushroom ...

It has been … quite a year. Looking back at what we published in 2024, it’s hard to believe so much happened. There were the highs, lows, and uh-ohs of the election. Both a catastrophic inland ...

In January, Gov. Roy Cooper went to the Nash County elementary school he’d attended in the 1960s to declare 2024 the “Year of Public Schools.” He denounced the Republican-led General Assembly’s ...

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As the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill entered the admissions season in October 2023, a member of the school’s Board of Trustees asked its chair to advise the group on how to recommend ...

In the November election, the youth vote was poised to be one of the most crucial blocks in the state. But voting rights advocates worried students would struggle with the state’s new voter ID laws, ...

Every holiday season, we ask the staff of The Assembly to pick some of their favorite stories we published throughout the year. These can be hard-hitting investigations, timely features, or just ...

The Assembly team is taking some much-needed time off over the holidays. While we won’t be publishing anything new for the next two weeks, we’ll use this space to revisit some of our best work this ...

Asheville has welcomed tourism back after Hurricane Helene. But in Biltmore Village, recovery is still months away.

This story is published in partnership with CityView. In July 1999, the Democratic majority in the North Carolina General Assembly passed the law that created early voting in this state, and the ...