Archive for category: Covid 19

By Jaymie Baxley  Efforts to prevent cuts that could significantly lower reimbursement to providers for services for North Carolinians on Medicaid stalled last week amid a three-way standoff between t...

By Claudia Rivera Cotto Enlace Latino NC At L. Gilbert Carroll Middle School in Robeson County, Principal Zach Jones watches the lunch line carefully, ensuring every student gets a tray. Many arrive h...

By Margaret Coker The Current This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Current. Update, Sept. 24, 2025: This story has been updated to reflect that on...

By Jennifer Fernandez ROCKY MOUNT — In the Black community, familes don’t talk about suicide or depression, one student said. Black men don’t grow up in homes where they can express themselves, anothe...

By Rachel Crumpler and Taylor Knopf In early September, video of Decarlos Brown stabbing 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska to death on a light rail car in Charlotte shocked the country. Peo...

By Rachel Crumpler Exactly one month after 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee, was fatally stabbed while riding the Charlotte light rail on Aug. 22 — a crime that garnered statewide and n...

By Taylor Knopf Adam, who has a history of childhood trauma and treatment-resistant depression, had never felt understood by any of his mental health providers.  “Appointments were 15 to 30 minutes to...

By Michelle Crouch   Carolina NeuroSurgery & Spine Associates, one of the nation’s largest independent neurosurgery practices, will join Atrium Health on Oct. 1, 2025, the two providers announced ...

By Andrew R. Jones Asheville Watchdog Nearly 40 employees connected to North Carolina’s Medicaid Ombudsman program, including nine at Pisgah Legal Services, will lose their jobs by the end of the year...

By Andrew R. Jones Asheville Watchdog State inspectors have returned to Mission Hospital for the second time in four months following complaints from nurses and a coalition of doctors, patient advocat...