In some places, locally supported nonprofits are stepping up, but leaders say their work can never fill the hole left by cuts to the federal food stamps program.

Experts offer practical steps for cleaner indoor air when wildfire smoke lingers, which can be triggered by local or distant fires.

The agency, which has been key to improving patient safety, has been shut down by the Trump administration through cuts to funding.

Independent monitor cites repeated threats to patient safety, discontinued and “degraded” services in latest report.

The lack of rain this summer hit NC farmers hard. Hunger relief organizations that rely on local produce are struggling too.

But experts agree that the fund is not a solution to cuts to Medicaid and broader, systemic challenges of rural healthcare.

A Wake County program collects unopened cafeteria items instead of the landfill, cutting waste and methane, advocates push to add dairy.

By Rachel Crumpler As last year’s state budget stalemate stretched into January of this year, N.C. Department of Adult Correction Secretary Leslie Cooley Dismukes laid out the crises facing her ...

The office spent more than three decades using data and community partnerships to address persistent health disparities.

Funding cuts in the new state budget eliminate a 30-year-old program that has trained more than 1,600 environmental educators across NC.

For nearly a year, Jake Davis languished in jail, waiting for a bed in a state-run psychiatric hospital to get court-ordered mental health treatment. Davis, 37 and diagnosed with bipolar and ...

In the wake of congressional passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which cuts more than a trillion dollars over the coming decade in health and human services spending, North Carolina state ...