For low-income adults, no relief for extreme heat in their homes can mean more emergency room visits and higher health costs.

Public health workers say new restrictions on drug-checking supplies come as street drugs become more contaminated and unpredictable.

Warming ocean waters are priming beaches and raw shellfish for Vibrio. Scientists are trying to stay one step ahead.

Next Steps by RREPS uses AI to create personalized plans for formerly incarcerated people navigating life after leaving prison or jail.

Lawsuits reveal allegations of preventable injuries and deaths inside nursing homes. Families pursuing legal action face barriers.

In Spring Hope, organizers hand out hydration packets, grow food, plan housing as NC farmworkers face heat stress, few legal ...

Legislation aims to increase oversight of hospital mergers, cap hospital CEO pay and add more accountability for hospital authorities like Atrium Health.

WILLIAMSTON — Two years after her brother’s death, Debra Pierce still wonders whether the 50-year-old would have survived his heart attack if her local hospital hadn’t closed. “The sad thing is we’ll ...

The total compensation of Atrium Health’s top executives soared by an average of 41 percent last year, according to newly released data from the hospital system, but information about the salary of ...

North Carolina has experienced a 13% net loss of child care programs since 2019, with record lows of licensed care expected in the next year, said Candace Witherspoon, director of the Division of ...

Teachers and state workers have long counted on better-than-average health benefits to help make up for the lower pay and demands of their government jobs. But some say it feels like that ...