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.

Nash County is home to three state legislative races that could make or break a GOP supermajority in North Carolina.

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

The Senate candidate won praise for declaring three players innocent as AG in 2007. Critics wish he’d done more for other defendants. A year ago, a judge dismissed murder charges against four men in ...

Update: Whatley told The Assembly after an event on Saturday that he’d be willing to participate in a Senate debate. North Carolina’s leading contenders for U.S. Senate haven’t agreed to participate ...

For more than a year, research universities across the country were on red alert over the Trump administration’s drastic proposed cuts to federal research funding. So it’s no surprise that University ...

On December 11, Dare County resident Richard Burrus posted a 23-second audio clip on social media that he claimed revealed former Superior Court Judge Jerry Tillett using the N-word and joking about ...

Former Superior Court Judge Jerry Tillett sued his former daughter-in-law, her new husband, a website publisher, and a social media antagonist for defamation on Wednesday. The lawsuit, filed in Dare ...

It was a humid night in July, and the patrons of Atomic Clock Brewing looked at me like I’d lost my mind when I asked if they knew who Dolly Parton was. Of course they knew Dolly: her charity, her ...

An analysis of legislators’ voting records shows that seven of 170 members haven’t missed a single vote since 2025. Several others, however, have been frequently absent. North Carolina lawmakers don’t ...