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

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

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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Here are our staff's favorite stories published throughout 2024, which we are putting outside our paywall as a special gift ...

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, ...

For 12 years, a Raleigh man has been making Black Santas a holiday tradition.

A recent Saturday night at the Moses Cone Memorial Hospital Emergency Department felt different. It didn’t reflect the madhouse triage atmosphere of past years, when a standing-room-only crowd of ...

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 ...

A desire for more inclusivity spurred a North Carolina man to make Black Santas a holiday tradition. Now in its 12th season, Santas Just Like Me makes Christmas magic all over the state. The same ...