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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The median college GPA has been rising at many schools across the state. It's not clear what's causing grade inflation—or if it matters.
An annual tradition that brings people back to the land their families lost to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park could be in jeopardy.
Universities like UNC-Chapel Hill major cuts to research funding, but the pipeline for new grants is shrinking. Researchers have been left in limbo.
The rate at which students are held back a grade has fallen. But there's a growing divide on when the intervention is most effective.