By Will Atwater Key Takeaways: AI data center developers are eyeing rural North Carolina, sparking debates over health, environmental safety and rising energy costs. Local fights in places like Edg...
Key Takeaways The state budget includes a combined $40 million for a plan by ECU Health to restore emergency department services in Martin County, which has been without a local hospital since 2023....
By Lucas Tomae Carolina Public Press A former state health director, a family physician and a coalition of healthcare organizations are working to bring perinatal care closer to home for expectant and...
By Noam N. Levey KFF Health News WINSTON-SALEM — Some issues, like immigration or student loans, are too divisive to unite Trinity Moravian Church. “We’ve got quite a spread of political beliefs,” sai...
By Rose Hoban Key Takeaways: The NC State Health Plan board of trustees adopted a four-tier provider network. Premiums for most of the 750,000 State Health plan members will rise 5 percent in 202...
By Ashley Fredde Scotland County Manager April Snead spent this year’s budget season outlining the kinds of tradeoffs that local governments face every spring: which capital projects can move forward,...
By Rose Hoban Key takeaways: Gov. Josh Stein’s Executive Order 35 created a Commission on Accessibility to identify and remove barriers that keep all North Carolinians from fully accessing state ...
Key takeaways: Since 2014, the Diaper Bank of NC has distributed more than 3 million period supplies to North Carolina schools, and the state has now formalized the nonprofit as the official provider...
By Michelle Crouch Co-published with The Charlotte Ledger A little-noticed provision in the state budget that was approved last week aims to shut down a tax strategy used by at least one hospital syst...
By Rachel Crumpler James Earquhart, 66, walked out of prison in December. After 15 years behind bars, he suddenly had to find a place to stay, look for work and figure out a way to rebuild his life. ...