Regional News and In-Depth Reporting

Postmark Greensboro: UNCG, Then and Now

The Julius I. Foust Building seen from a postcard sent in 1912. The schools was known at that time as the State Normal and Industrial College.

Charles Duncan McIver founded what would become UNC-Greensboro in 1891, expanding access to higher education and changing the face of public education in North Carolina.

Can $150 Million Transform Early Childhood Education in Guilford County?

Pre-K students participating in Books On Break. (Photo by Doug Jackson)

A collective effort supported by $150 million in private investment and philanthropic organizations aims to transform early childhood education.

The Faces of Wilmington’s Unhoused

(From left) Chelsea Alicia Sterling, Victor Quillen, Theresa Shively, Leroy Lyons, and Cindy. (Photo by Madeline Gray)

WHQR follows the lives of homeless individuals in Wilmington as they work together to stay safe.

Downtown Development and A Center for the Unhoused Collide

An unhoused woman sleeps outside the Interactive Resource Center on E. Washington Street. The center, overwhelmed by demand, is at the center of a community controversy that features tension over downtown development and how best to help the city's homeless population. (Joe Killian for The Assembly)

Greensboro’s Interactive Resource Center has served people experiencing homelessness for 15 years. But increased demand and an expanding urban core have put the organization at the center of a fight.

A Heated Political Moment

Several days before the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump, the New Hanover County Democratic Party Chair's car was vandalized. (Courtesy of Jill Hopman)

Vandals have allegedly damaged Democrats’ property at least twice this month amid a national conversation about political violence.

The Greensboro City Council Is About To Get A Lot of New Faces

Big changes could be in store with at least four, and possibly six, current members departing next year.

Objects Can’t Lie

The Greensboro History Museum. (Carolyn de Berry for The Assembly)

A Greensboro museum has been working to return artifacts taken from Japan during World War II.

A Conservative Newspaper Looks To the Future

Scott Yost in front of the former Rhinoceros Times office in downtown Greensboro. (Carolyn de Berry for The Assembly)

For over 30 years, The Rhino Times has been an anomaly—a right-wing alt-weekly in left-leaning Greensboro.

A Town’s Entire Staff Resigned. What Happens Now?

The empty first floor of Summerfield Town Hall. (Photo by Ren Larson)

The resignation of Summerfield’s town staff puts the future of the antigrowth suburb into question.

Mayor For Life

Wilmington Mayor Bill Saffo on the stage of Live Oak Bank Pavilion, a riverfront performance venue the city opened in 2021. (Johanna F. Still for The Assembly)

Wilmington’s Bill Saffo has sailed through more than two decades in public office.