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

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 ...

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 ...

The Senate candidate won praise for declaring three players innocent as AG in 2007. Critics wish he’d done more for other defendants.

The Western North Carolina Republican maintains his relationships with female staffers were friendships and not sexual ...

Universities like UNC-Chapel Hill major cuts to research funding, but the pipeline for new grants is shrinking. Researchers have been left in limbo.

Beakers in a lab at North Carolina A&T State University. (Julia Wall for The Assembly) ...

Peter Gartrell is a communications and research consultant in Durham. He is working on a book and documentary about Sugar Hill Records. Write to him at peter@gartrellpublicaffairs.com.

Ninth graders in N.C. are held back more often than students in other parts of the country. How can schools ensure they're ready to move on?

The State Board of Elections has acted on early voting plans in 20 disputed counties.