Jane Winik Sartwell | Carolina Public Press

Tropical Storm Helene devastated the ski industry in NC with direct damage and discouraging tourists. Snowfall this winter could fuel rebound.

Court ruling could restore flow of federal dollars for SNAP food program that many in NC rely on. But disruption still expected.

Migrant farm worker fatally injured by equipment on sweet potato farm in Nash County. NC Labor Department to investigate.

Western NC’s economy has rebounded well by some measures. But one year after Helene, limited access to food, housing and good jobs persists.

Despite closures at other rural hospitals across North Carolina, the labor and delivery unit at UNC Health Chatham is a recent addition.

For a variety of businesses in Western NC, a bustling summer tourism season is sorely needed to balance their books.

For residents of rural North Carolina, quality health care can seem nonexistent. Let alone affordable. Now, one of the only options for low-cost, low-barrier medical care is under threat: community health centers.

The Cape Fear River Basin is the source of drinking water for 1.5 million North Carolina residents. It is also where three municipal governments — Asheboro, Greensboro and Reidsville — are legally dumping dangerous levels of 1,4-dioxane, a colorless industrial solvent linked to cancer.

Another year, another drought for North Carolina farmers, who head into spring planting season with a lot of uncertainty.

In a break with previous administration, new NC Treasurer Brad Briner says higher premiums, not legislative fixes, needed for NC Health Plan.