A new committee will explore ways to strengthen support for the roughly 4,700 people with mental health diagnoses leaving state prisons each year.

Only 4% of hiring was for new positions, according to an analysis that points to retention, safety and geography as the biggest challenges.

The agreement resolves a dispute over health care costs that left thousands of state employees wondering whether they could afford to keep their doctors.

Across North Carolina, health systems are spending billions to grow and stake out new territory. Will patients be better off?

The project fills a gap in a state where recovery housing falls short of need, and money, stigma and a lack of affordable housing stand in the way.

On a heavily wooded tract near the intersection of U.S. 1 and N.C. 540 — a 220-acre spot in southern Apex so void of infrastructure it shows up only as GPS coordinates on a map, the Duke Endowment ...

Chemicals used to reduce coolant’s climate impact end up breaking down in the atmosphere into trifluoroacetic acid, or TFA, a pollutant that persists in the environment. Many researchers classify TFA ...

The burden and cost of caring for aging parents falls hardest on low-income households, a new report suggests.

Needle exchanges, disease testing, providing Narcan and other harm reduction efforts navigate complexities of Western NC communities.

Research shows natural gas pipelines — and the public health risks they carry — are concentrated in low-income and minority areas with higher rates of poverty.

In December 2023, the attorney general’s office did just that. Brought by then Attorney General Josh Stein, now governor, and continued under Attorney General Jeff Jackson, it accuses HCA and Mission ...

Mary Otto was a reporter at The Washington Post almost two decades ago when she came across the story of a Maryland boy whose lack of access to routine dental care would expose a broken oral health ...