Rising From The Ashes

An outpouring of love for coastal seafood staple Ella’s of Calabash after a devastating fire this spring.

Published
Categorized as Food

The Living Legacy of the Piedmont Blues

A Hayti mural depicting bluesman John Dee Holeman and friends, painted by Emily Eve Weinstein and community volunteers. (Photo by James Hill)

The music that grew out of Durham’s tobacco plants influenced some of the most widely recorded musicians of the last 65 years.

A New Era In the War on Drugs 

Carisa Collins-Caddle, an outreach worker in Robeson County for the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, prepares suppllies, including needles and alcohol swabs, for a client on April 17, 2023.

North Carolina is getting $1.4 billion to fight the opioid epidemic, but there’s much debate over how to spend it.

The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds

Eastern bluebird photo by Anders Gyllenhaal.

Behind the scenes with the conservationists trying to build public support for saving birds in North Carolina. 

A Novant Checkup

A Novant Health Express Care location in Wilmington. (Julia Wall for The Assembly)

It’s been more than two years since Novant Health took over New Hanover County’s community hospital. Is the company living up to its promises?

The Last Days of Papertown

Photos by Mike Belleme for The Assembly.

For 115 years, the paper mill was central to Canton’s identity – for better or worse. Now the town must figure out what comes next.