A professor says Bennett College didn’t follow its own human resource policies during a misconduct investigation. The college argued it doesn’t have to.

An attorney for The News & Record is heading to the North Carolina Supreme Court, hoping to overturn a judge’s decisions to seize a reporter’s notes and issue a gag order.

The university has hired the same team that produced a confidential report into its civics school earlier this year.

Next week, Republicans will choose a replacement for the Western North Carolina lawmaker on the November ballot. Here’s who might advance. Edwards said in a statement on X that he’ll serve out the ...

Read “Barely Legal,” The Assembly’s three-part investigation into North Carolina hemp, here. Update 08/04: House Republicans decided in an internal meeting Tuesday not to bring the Senate-passed hemp ...

For NC refugees, a sudden shift in federal policy proves that the deepest uncertainty isn't what they fled—it's what they now ...

Robert Taber, chair of the UNC System Faculty Taskforce on Civil Discourse, explains why it shouldn’t be a partisan issue. A Bennett College professor claimed the school didn’t follow its human ...

Lee Lilley knows the need for rural jobs. But he’s facing growing grassroots disenchantment over data centers.

Pressure had been building among Republicans to force him out after a House Ethics report cited alleged inappropriate ...

UNC-Chapel Hill’s top fundraising official will depart next month for a similar job at Columbia University, the schools announced Wednesday. Mike Andreasen, who has been vice chancellor for ...

Gov. Josh Stein speaks at a Democratic Party Unity Dinner. (Bryan Anderson for The Assembly) A top leader is claiming the opposing party is trying to steal an election in North Carolina. And no, it’s ...