By Rachel Crumpler Five prison employees were killed in North Carolina in 2017 — four from a failed escape attempt at Pasquotank Correctional Institution and another in an attack at Bertie Correctiona...
By Anne Blythe Many health care systems talk about three main pillars of care for treating cancer patients: medical, surgical and radiation oncology. It turns out that having state-of-the-art radiatio...
By Jennifer Fernandez During Isabella Avila’s freshman year at Union Pines High School in rural Moore County, a member of the senior class died in a car accident. Then, during her sophomore year, a f...
By Daniel Larlham Jr. Co-published with the Charlotte Ledger Medical providers in Charlotte and across the state say more patients are landing in emergency rooms with problems stemming from cannabis u...
By Katie Dukes EdNC North Carolina has had a net loss of 367 licensed child care programs since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 12% of those losses occurred in the final quarter of 2025....
The human heart is often described as a pump, but there’s much more to it: it also has a special electrical system that regulates and coordinates heartbeats. Abnormal heartbeats are called arrhythmias...
By Jaymie Baxley The clock is ticking for lawmakers in North Carolina — the only state in the nation without an approved budget — to settle on a plan to cover rising administrative costs for Medicaid....
By Rachel Crumpler More than 600 people gathered in Raleigh last April at the North Carolina Rehabilitation and Reentry Conference. One perhaps unexpected attendee sat front and center: first lady Ann...
By Will Atwater As a child, Christian Dale used to run from bees. “I remember playing on a soccer field and taking off as soon as a bumblebee came near,” he said. “I was terrified.” Now, the UNC Chape...
By Jennifer Fernandez In Alamance County, Ivey Broadnax works with young people who may be struggling with mental health issues. Instead of focusing on mental health symptoms or deficits, Broadnax and...