As the Family Dollar founder's philanthropy embarks on a $2 billion push to help communities in need, the company faces ...

Hurricane Helene severely damaged a key Western North Carolina hatchery used to boost the trout stock of local rivers. Now it's coming back.

Victor Strandberg is retiring at age 91. The English professor reflects on what’s changed—including Blue Devils basketball—and what comes next for him.

Dave Boliek talks with NC State football fans. (Cornell Watson for The Assembly) When she learned that Republican State Auditor Dave Boliek was coming to Greensboro to speak at a local rotary club in ...

Alex Mostella drove by the construction site behind Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville every day for the past two years on his way to work as a medical scribe at an eye-care clinic. When ...

The health care gaps in Martin County illustrate the finite reach of the rural health fund Republicans crafted to strengthen support for President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Two years ...

UNC Health offered to invest $5 billion in WakeMed as part of a proposed merger, according to documents about the unsolicited proposal The Assembly has obtained. That’s $3 billion more than Atrium ...

The Trump administration’s proposed revamp of college accreditation rules could speed up the UNC System’s effort to launch a new accreditor for public universities. Last week, the U.S. Department of ...

Clarence Henderson speaks at a Trump campaign event in High Point, N.C., in September 2016. (AP Photo/Alex Sanz) Tucked inside the General Assembly’s last full budget, in 2023, was a little-noticed ...

Dave Boliek said his office plans to audit the state’s private-school voucher program, with the goal of releasing a report in the fall.