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Run, Roy, Run?

Roy Cooper arrives onstage at a campaign rally in October 2024. (AP Photo/Allison Joyce)

Democrats are putting pressure on former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper to run for senate.

Illustration by Jack Snyder/ Smoky Mountain News

A Christian author with a long list of abandoned business deals and unpaid creditors finds a new home for his work in N.C.

Cooked soy beans are mixed with koji, water and salt to begin the aging and fermentation period. (Mike Belleme for The Assembly)

Rutherfordton-based Miso Master has become the world’s largest organic producer of a Japanese culinary staple.

The GOP lawmaker’s answers were tough to hear over disruptions from the crowd of about 300 people.

Tundra swans and other migratory waterfowl enjoy a managed impoundment that feeds into Lake Mattamuskeet. (Andrea Bruce for The Assembly)

The largest natural lake in the state and an important national refuge for migrating birds is facing an ecological catastrophe.

UNC's study of fluoride in water is taking place in Kinston. (Julia Wall for The Assembly)

Both sides of the fluoride-in-water debate say they want a rigorous scientific study. Now UNC-Chapel Hill is doing it in Kinston.

Attendees of the North Carolina Association of Educators Summer Leaders Conference write down their ideas. (Angelica Edwards for The Assembly)

Educators in Durham and Guilford counties last year. Can teachers leverage those wins into statewide gains?

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North Carolina churches are raising concerns about ICE enforcement in places of worship.

The Assembly has been selected as one of six newsrooms in the first cohort of the NOTUS Washington Bureau Initiative.

The view at Appalachian Ski Mountain in Blowing Rock. (Jesse Barber for The Assembly)

As climate change raises temperatures and changes snowfall patterns, the state’s multimillion-dollar ski industry has had to adapt.