Needle exchanges, disease testing, providing Narcan and other harm reduction efforts navigate complexities of Western NC communities.

Companies market wood pellets and hog biogas as climate solutions. Critics say neighbors are exposed to health risks and life quality issues.

In December 2023, the attorney general’s office did just that. Brought by then Attorney General Josh Stein, now governor, and continued under Attorney General Jeff Jackson, it accuses HCA and Mission ...

Duke Health and CaroMont Health aim to build two new hospitals in Mecklenburg County. It's the latest move in a wave of hospital expansion.

When Atrium Health CEO Gene Woods first visited Atrium Health’s behavioral health hospital on Randolph Road in Charlotte 10 ...

The 10-bed unit will provide intensive treatment to young people with acute behavioral health needs who struggle to find placement in other facilities.

State officials say North Carolina needs better housing for people with disabilities. A nonprofit is trying to lead the way.

Katherine Farris has been an abortion provider for more than 20 years, and she says that this past year has been the hardest of her career — by a long shot. Not her first year of practice when ...

Paula Case knows the job of a medical examiner wasn’t meant to be easy. Since 2021 she has driven up and down seven counties of western North Carolina investigating deaths that are sudden, violent, ...

CHATHAM COUNTY — Despite being in one of the nation’s fastest-growing states, this rural county of roughly 85,000 people is still brimming with red foxes, coyotes, white-tailed deer, and wild turkeys.

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There’s a fundamental principle in the field of economics: “incentives matter.” The premise is that if the right kinds of financial carrots are put in place, rational people will weigh costs and ...