As Roy Cooper runs for Senate, Republicans have seized on a 2021 settlement that compelled officials to reduce the prison population.

State Senate leader Phil Berger's supporters spent big on his reelection bid. (Bryan Anderson for The Assembly) ...

Campaign and Voting signs outside the Johnston County Democratic Party HQ in Smithfield, N.C. (Matt Ramey for The Assembly) The Assembly Network had a successful run in this year’s Green Eyeshade ...

The World Whistlers Convention now draws hundreds of entrants to Japan every year. But its roots are in Louisburg, N.C.

Republican state Senate leader Phil Berger spent a staggering sum on his unsuccessful reelection bid earlier this year. Berger’s campaign and outside groups supporting him spent more than $12.6 ...

Illustration by Ellie Bruno. Photos via AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, Gage Skidmore (Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons Attribution License), Cheriss May/SIPA USA, Ildar Sagdejev (Wikimedia ...

This story is republished from NOTUS. The Defense Department this week announced UNC-Chapel Hill and Virginia Tech as the newest hosts of a reworked educational program for service members, a decision ...

The North Carolina Community College System has chosen the former leader of Louisiana’s community colleges as its next president, which the search committee dubbed the Tar Heel State’s “most important ...

Duke University alumni have played high-profile roles in the Trump administration. A 2000s culture clash helps explain why.

In the late 2000s, when Holden Thorp, then UNC-Chapel Hill’s chancellor, heard about the UNC Management Company’s plans to put more of the system’s endowment into SpaceX, he couldn’t believe it. “Are ...