These are The Assembly stories that made the biggest waves this year, from beach shades to porn shop allegations to mushroom ...

It has been … quite a year. Looking back at what we published in 2024, it’s hard to believe so much happened. There were the highs, lows, and uh-ohs of the election. Both a catastrophic inland ...

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Here are our staff's favorite stories published throughout 2024, which we are putting outside our paywall as a special gift ...

The Assembly team is taking some much-needed time off over the holidays. While we won’t be publishing anything new for the next two weeks, we’ll use this space to revisit some of our best work this ...

Asheville has welcomed tourism back after Hurricane Helene. But in Biltmore Village, recovery is still months away.

A desire for inclusivity spurred a North Carolina man to make Black Santas a holiday tradition. Santas Just Like Me is in its 12th season.

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A few days before Christmas 2011, photographer Stafford Braxton was at Raleigh’s Crabtree Valley Mall when he noticed an older Black man with a white beard walking through the crowded shopping center.