Erik Ramsey’s suicide in solitary confinement highlights rising mental illness and a jump in such deaths in North Carolina prisons over the past year.

Former EPA employees warn that rural communities across the United States will be left with fewer protections.

NC's legislature redirected human trafficking initiative funds, causing delays that disrupted vital services for sexual abuse ...

Solar microgrids and other modern technologies could transform care delivery in disaster-prone, underserved areas.

As NC delays setting limits on 1,4-dioxane, utilities like CFPUA face mounting costs to protect drinking water from upstream pollution.

Edgecombe, Beaufort and Nash leaders recently described how they're working to cut opioid overdoses, and they all went to the source.

Child care solutions are essentially, say WNC employers, who have been increasingly vocal this year about the need for ...

An organ procurement organization filed a lawsuit to stop Atrium Health from taking over organ donation services at Atrium ...

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People with disabilities have come from across the state to press the legislature for funds for services, increased pay for ...

Creek and environmental cleanups reveal a growing plastic problem that advocates say lawmakers can no longer ignore.

Health care professionals, patients and even the governor are calling on North Carolina's congressional delegation to protect Medicaid.