The Republican-controlled General Assembly redirected funds that have been used to help low-income residents with civil cases ...

With the help of AI, the Republican Party's camera-shy state Supreme Court candidate shows up in a new way online.

Sonia A. Rao is a freelance journalist from Morrisville, N.C. She was previously a fellow on the national desk of The New York Times and is a 2024 graduate of The University of North Carolina at ...

Under normal circumstances, the 11th Congressional District shouldn’t be competitive. Donald Trump carried it with 54.2% of the vote in 2024—a stronger showing than he had in any congressional ...

The country’s only state-funded agency devoted to investigating post-conviction innocence claims has survived an attempt by state Senate Republicans to abolish it last year. And it has a new name.

Three college guys used to hang out at a house a few blocks from the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Two of them lived there; the third was a close friend who lived at his ...

This story is part of The Assembly’s investigation into North Carolina hemp. Learn more here. Proposals to regulate North Carolina’s hemp industry have tended to share several features. They limit ...

This story is published through our partnership with NOTUS. North Carolina Republicans want newly confirmed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s attention. All 10 Republicans in North ...

This story has been updated to reflect the amount of Christine Pierre’s settlement. A Charlotte man filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging that two police officers wrongfully arrested him and his ...

It was windy and cold outside but stuffy in the fellowship hall where the candidates prepared to preach to primary voters. A crowd of about 40 shuffled into Little Rock AME Zion Church, one of ...

Update: Gov. Josh Stein signed off on Kiger’s nomination minutes after Tuesday’s voting session. On Tuesday, North Carolina Republicans were without a new member they had planned to seat: Dan Kiger, a ...

Republican leaders released their much-anticipated state budget on Tuesday morning. We’ll have more to report as it inches toward the finish line this week, but here are eight new developments that ...