New exemption guidance from CMS on who qualifies as "medically frail" has forced the state back to the drawing board.

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has suspended admissions to Trails Carolina, a residential therapeutic camp in Transylvania County, after a 12 year boy died there Feb. 3, ...

Gov. Josh Stein is calling for the U.S. Congress to appropriate billions more dollars to North Carolina's recovery from last year's Helene. The storm drenched western North Carolina, causing ...

With the federal shutdown ongoing, more than 1.3 million North Carolinians who receive federal food assistance could see partial benefits on their EBT cards early next week. The U.S. Department of ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. House Republicans listen during a press conference about their budget bill at the ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - It’s been 12 years since the NC Child Treatment Program was founded, and the group has already helped thousands of kids across the state with mental health treatment. Now, ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A targeted program is coming to the Wake County Detention Center aimed at improving mental health services for inmates who doctors deem unfit to stand trial. Officials say this ...

As the temperatures drop, some North Carolina families may be scrambling to figure out how they'll pay to heat their homes. Thousands of North Carolinians use the Low Income Home Energy Assistance ...

A North Carolina program incentivizing hospitals to relieve patients’ medical debts has cut more than $6.5 billion in accrued debts for more than 2.5 million people since launching last summer. The ...

A nonprofit run by North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s wife, Yolanda Hill, has been ordered to pay $132,000 by the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services as part of an investigation into her ...