A Senate bill would require agencies to accept recent adult care home inspections instead of conducting new ones, prompting debate over resident safety.

Attorney General Jeff Jackson elects to join 24 other states plus the District of Columbia, arguing that a new rule limiting the amount students can borrow is illegal.

State leaders are expanding reentry programs aimed at closing gaps in behavioral health care and lowering recidivism for people released from prison.

The number of kinship caregivers increased nearly 16 percent from 2023 to 2025, after the state began paying unlicensed ...

Former Healthy Opportunities Pilot leaders launch new rural health efforts while pushing lawmakers to restore direct service funding.

According to the researchers, the reasons for the disparity are complicated, but overdose mortality remains one of the ...

The new mobile crisis for children and families aims to keep kids out of emergency rooms and psychiatric hospitals by sending mental health workers directly to their homes for up to eight weeks.

The closure of A Woman’s Choice in Greensboro highlights the financial and operational strain providers face under tighter abortion restrictions.

Erectile dysfunction drug found in Third Fork Creek study. "I don't think the squirrels are taking Cialis and Viagra,” one ...

NC Medicaid funding bill came with unintended consequences and several perceived flaws. Some lawmakers talk fixes, but outlook unclear.

Dream.Org's reentry program offers clean energy training and support services so justice-impacted people can land jobs in the green economy.

It received conditional approval – now contested – to increase patient capacity by 13 percent; staff is projected to grow 3.7 percent.