Assembly Staff

About 225 people serving life-without-parole sentences are eligible for review under an obscure North Carolina law.

Army EOD technicians have the highest rate of suicide and illness-related deaths in the service.

The best of The Assembly’s work from the last month, including digging into charter schools and why Tupac’s ashes are buried in Lumberton.

We are lucky to work with a number of talented photographers around the state who really made our stories come to life in 2025.

These are The Assembly stories that made the biggest waves this year, from beach parking to cattle fraud to the state Supreme Court race.

Today’s are about the seekers, the folks whose faith—or loss thereof—is guiding their life course.

Here are our staff’s favorite stories published throughout the year, which we are putting outside our paywall as a special gift to you.