By Michelle Crouch If you work for a large company, you probably have a 401(k) or a similar program that allows you to automatically deduct money from your paycheck to save for retirement. You may eve...
By Grace Vitaglione North Carolinians are getting older, but there aren’t enough people getting trained to care for them. The population of people ages 65 and older in North Carolina is expected to n...
By Rachel Crumpler Ninety-five percent of incarcerated people in North Carolina prisons will one day return home — that’s roughly 18,000 people this year alone. But walking out of the doors of one of...
By Anne Blythe Shital Patel became a widow almost five years ago after she took her husband, an admired cardiologist, to a Wilmington dentist for what she was told would be a routine dental implant pr...
By Taylor Knopf It’s been a little less than a year since Alamance Behavioral Health Center opened its doors to the public to offer an array of mental health services ranging from a walk-in, urgent ca...
By Taylor Sisk Daily Yonder An interest in different cultures led Matthew Mahar to pursue an anthropology minor in college and to subsequently travel extensively. More recently, it’s led him to a hosp...
By Grace Vitaglione and Rose Hoban The North Carolina Senate’s proposed budget for the next two fiscal years is packed with policy around new health care initiatives, including repealing North Carolin...
By Jennifer Fernandez A bill that would further shorten the practice period for young drivers stalled Wednesday in the Transportation Committee of the N.C. House. Sponsors of House Bill 584 asked to r...
By Will Atwater On Dec. 2, 1970, with the stroke of a pen, President Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency. By the end of that month — on Dec. 31 — he signed the landmark Clean Air...
By Jennifer Fernandez When North Carolina implemented a year of practice as part of a new graduated driver’s licensing for 16- and 17-year-olds in the 1990s, the state saw an almost immediate plunge i...