The Katie Blessing Center will provide much-needed psychiatric beds for kids. But campaign donations tied to its backers are drawing scrutiny.

Independent monitor cites repeated threats to patient safety, discontinued and “degraded” services in latest report.

But experts agree that the fund is not a solution to cuts to Medicaid and broader, systemic challenges of rural healthcare.

Small-scale solar microgrids for Appalachian communities could help keep communities warm and fed during future blackouts.

A budget provision about dental Medicaid services, ambulatory surgical centers confounds oral health organizations, advocates.

A Wake County program collects unopened cafeteria items instead of the landfill, cutting waste and methane, advocates push to add dairy.

By Rachel Crumpler As last year’s state budget stalemate stretched into January of this year, N.C. Department of Adult Correction Secretary Leslie Cooley Dismukes laid out the crises facing her ...

Funding cuts in the new state budget eliminate a 30-year-old program that has trained more than 1,600 environmental educators across NC.

A new rule change would allow agencies to terminate federal grants for political reasons — without a reason or appeal.

After Decarlos Brown Jr. was arrested in late August and accused in the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee aboard a Charlotte light rail train — a killing that has drawn statewide and national ...

Dr. Charles Sawyer, 88, has cared for rural Eastern North Carolina residents for more than 50 years. Also in the photo is patient Vickie Byron, of Windsor. Photo credit: Liora Engel-Smith. A new study ...

Congress included an exemption in last year’s federal Medicaid work requirement law for people who are “medically frail” — a category that encompasses people with serious or complex medical conditions ...