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

This low-wealth county is facing economic promises and residents’ concerns over fossil‑fuel power, water use and rising utility bills.

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 ...

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

Parents and providers warn that changes to treatment reauthorization and who can provide autism therapy could mean many children lose care.

By Skye Crawford Ben Ingraham wanted to be a doctor. He planned to attend medical school after serving as a U.S. Navy corpsman, but his time in the military was unexpectedly cut short. A traumatic ...

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

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

ECU Health gets funding needed to begin converting the shuttered Martin General facility into a Rural Emergency Hospital.

Cyclospora infects the small intestine, and usually causes watery diarrhea with frequent, sometimes explosive bowel movements. Other symptoms can include loss of appetite, substantial loss of weight, ...

In North Carolina’s largest jail, hundreds of people sleep on the floor on portable bed platforms. As of July 16, 2,146 people were in custody in Mecklenburg County’s uptown Charlotte jail — 242 ...