Environmentalists gathered on Earth Day to signal that they are ready to push forward with efforts to curb single-use plastic ...

Older North Carolinians, roadmap, 65 and older, aging in place, All Ages, All Stages, Roadmap To Aging and Living Well, long-term care ...

As the environment faces increasing pressures from the onset of climate change and pollution, some say granting nature ...

Getting records has been difficult, but child advocates hope lawmakers will craft legislation to ease way for Guilford, ...

The disparity in health between rural and urban Americans has grown in recent decades, according to a recent federal report.

Disability rights, intellectual and developmental disabilities, foster care discrimination, Samantha R case, NAACP, ...

With funds from big pharma settlement, the county hopes to reduce opioid deaths by creating a "community of first responders." ...

Now that Gov. Roy Cooper has checked expanding Medicaid off his gubernatorial to-do list, he has shifted his health care focus to the needs of North Carolina’s most vulnerable — the young, the old and ...

Nonprofits, health agencies gather to highlight factors that contribute to grim disparity, brainstorm solutions to improve outcomes.

When it comes to growth, it seems like hospitals can’t get enough of it. Across the country, a tidal wave of hospital mergers and acquisitions in recent years has created multi-billion-dollar hospital ...

Seven months after a provision added to the 2023-24 North Carolina state budget prohibited municipalities from establishing single-use plastic bag ordinances, a group of Western North Carolina ...