Prison leaders say that 2024 will be a record year for breaking down barriers formerly incarcerated people face returning to the community.

Environmentalists gathered on Earth Day to signal that they are ready to push forward with efforts to curb single-use plastic ...

As the environment faces increasing pressures from the onset of climate change and pollution, some say granting nature ...

Getting records has been difficult, but child advocates hope lawmakers will craft legislation to ease way for Guilford, ...

Older North Carolinians, roadmap, 65 and older, aging in place, All Ages, All Stages, Roadmap To Aging and Living Well, long-term care ...

The disparity in health between rural and urban Americans has grown in recent decades, according to a recent federal report.

With funds from big pharma settlement, the county hopes to reduce opioid deaths by creating a "community of first responders." ...

Nonprofits, health agencies gather to highlight factors that contribute to grim disparity, brainstorm solutions to improve outcomes.

Now that Gov. Roy Cooper has checked expanding Medicaid off his gubernatorial to-do list, he has shifted his health care focus to the needs of North Carolina’s most vulnerable — the young, the old and ...

When it comes to growth, it seems like hospitals can’t get enough of it. Across the country, a tidal wave of hospital mergers and acquisitions in recent years has created multi-billion-dollar hospital ...

It has been a busy few weeks in the courts for an organization that has been a staunch advocate for North Carolinians with disabilities. And on Thursday, the nonprofit heralded a federal judge’s ...