March 2023

An Oyster Highway Is the New River’s Future

Pat Donovan-Brandenburg, a marine biologist and stormwater manager for the city of Jacksonville, works in the New River.

Decades of pollution decimated Onslow County’s New River. Millions of hungry oysters helped bring it back to life.

Power in the Public Sector

A file photo of state workers rallying in downtown Raleigh in 2002.

The State Employees Association of North Carolina is parting ways with the nation’s second-biggest service union after 15 years.

A Jury Of One’s Peers

Illustration by Jason Allen Lee for The Assembly

A case before the N.C. Supreme Court questions whether a training document on jury selection was used to help remove Black jurors.

A Delicious New Partnership for North Carolina

Our partnership with Hanna Raskin’s The Food Section marks a deeper dive into journalism about what we eat and why.

Cut to the Core

An archival photo of the Center for Documentary Studies office, on the wall inside that office.

A five-hour meeting about the future of Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies raised as many questions as it answered.

Raleigh’s Thin Blue Line

Police say they acted swiftly to address concerns about falsified evidence in the vice unit. But new court documents show officers knew about problematic arrests months earlier.