His portrait occupies a prominent place on the wall. The suit is gray, the tie red with diagonal stripes. He returns a viewer’s gaze with a direct, beneficent look and a hint of a grin. The fingers of ...

UNC Health offered to invest $5 billion in WakeMed as part of a proposed merger, according to documents about the unsolicited proposal The Assembly has obtained. That’s $3 billion more than Atrium ...

The North Carolina Supreme Court upheld two separate cases centered on the question of whether odor can be considered probable cause for a search. The cases—State v. Rowdy and State v. Dobson—have ...

The rare move comes a year after the Board of Trustees delayed dozens of votes to confer tenure, sparking outcry from faculty ...

Victor Strandberg is retiring at age 91. The English professor reflects on what’s changed—including Blue Devils basketball—and what comes next for him.

Ralph Baric—the renowned public-health researcher whose work on coronaviruses helped make COVID-19 vaccines possible, but brought scrutiny in the process—will retire from UNC-Chapel Hill in June.

The announcement UNC-Chapel Hill Vice Chancellor for Development Michael Andreasen delivered to a room of university deans in December 2024 blindsided many of them. Starting the following year, top ...

Days after it became public that WakeMed intended to merge with Charlotte-based Atrium Health, UNC Health sent the Wake County system an offer. WakeMed quickly rejected it. UNC is still open to ...

Clarence Henderson speaks at a Trump campaign event in High Point, N.C., in September 2016. (AP Photo/Alex Sanz) Tucked inside the General Assembly’s last full budget, in 2023, was a little-noticed ...

Lawmakers hope to pass a full budget in a month. But they haven’t reached consensus on a number of priorities.

A judge ordered the county to cover partial costs of lawyers who have represented The Assembly and Border Belt Independent in ...