These are The Assembly stories that made the biggest waves this year, from beach parking to cattle fraud to the state Supreme ...

While I was personally very much looking forward to leaving 2025 in the rearview mirror, I’m still a little shocked that it’s already January. As we end our publishing pause and kick off 2026, here’s ...

Here are our staff's favorite stories published throughout the year, which we are putting outside our paywall as a special ...

Our photographers really makes our stories come to life. Here are some of the most memorable photos published in The Assembly ...

In five years, we've gone from two unpaid editors sending emails with hopes and prayers, to a 45-person team publishing over ...

When state House Republicans redrew district lines last year, they moved Democratic Rep. Lindsey Prather from a Buncombe County district that was safely Democratic to one that leans Republican.

This story, the second in the multi-part series Forever War, is published in partnership with Inside Climate News and WHQR. The shipment arrived by FedEx, packed in dry ice. Inside were 119 plastic ...

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New charter schools are struggling to enroll enough students to stay solvent. One High Point school’s implosion shows the consequences.

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