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

A decade after a federal judge ordered North Carolina to adopt a plan to give juvenile offenders serving life sentences a “meaningful opportunity” for parole, a lawsuit making its way through the ...

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

Gov. Josh Stein created a 32-member commission to make it easier for people to access government in buildings, old and new, and online.

Program won’t try to eliminate NC maternity deserts, but will find ways to ease burden on rural mothers needing obstetric healthcare.

The nonprofit becomes official provider for N.C.'s Feminine Hygiene Products program, shifting from school grants to statewide distribution.

A politically diverse North Carolina church has united around forgiving medical debt, raising thousands of dollars to erase millions in unpaid medical bills and showing that helping neighbors can ...

It’s “go time” for North Carolina lifeguards. This weekend, with temperatures expected to reach 100 degrees across much of the state and throngs of people are expected to descend on its beaches ...

Firefighters, health officials and water safety advocates share tips for staying safe over the holiday weekend and summer.

After three years at the helm, Jay Ludlam is stepping down as director of North Carolina’s Medicaid program. Ludlam’s tenure included North Carolina’s expansion of Medicaid, a decade-in-the-making ...

Scotland County Manager April Snead spent this year’s budget season outlining the kinds of tradeoffs that local governments face every spring: which capital projects can move forward, which can wait ...