Archive for category: Covid 19

By Taylor Knopf Thanos first stepped into the peer cafe across from the bus station in downtown Raleigh looking for his friend — and the promise of a free coffee. What keeps him coming back months lat...

By Will Atwater In North Carolina, debates over how to regulate emerging water contaminants are moving from the lab to the policy arena — and this week, those debates could translate into binding poli...

By Jennifer Fernandez Late last year, an Apex man pleaded guilty in connection with a now-shuttered nonprofit accused of selling poorly trained, or untrained and aggressive dogs to families seeking se...

By Anne Blythe More than 13 years have passed since a group of prominent state retirees filed a lawsuit challenging what was then a new state law that required them to start paying for health care ben...

By Will Atwater, Jaymie Baxley, Anne Blythe, Rachel Crumpler, Jennifer Fernandez, Rose Hoban and Taylor Knopf Making predictions in the current political and social environment can be a tricky busines...

NC Local What you need to know What is the Affordable Care Act? Signed into law in 2010 by then-President Barack Obama, the Affordable Care Act expanded health care coverage for millions of Americans....

By Taylor Knopf, Rachel Crumpler, Jennifer Fernandez, Rose Hoban, Jaymie Baxley and Ashley Fredde When patients feel mistreated, it’s become difficult to find recourse in the courts. A law passed in 2...

By Will Atwater, Anne Blythe, Michelle Crouch, Taylor Knopf Our most-read story of 2025 had a distinctive “eew!” factor. It was about new research showing that emissions from hog operations can travel...

By Anne Blythe A version of this story initially was published on Dec. 26, 2024. We’ve tweaked it ever so slightly and offered it up again in case you’re thinking about a holiday hike in the final day...

By Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press A challenge of the constitutionality of North Carolina’s Certificate of Need law may be heading back to the state Supreme Court. On Friday, a three-judge p...