NC Health News

State officials outline next steps to spending federal funds to improve care in rural communities as lawmakers raise concerns about equity.

The state plans to keep its childhood vaccination schedule, which includes required and recommended shots that are no longer part of federal guidelines.

Once sustained on shoestring budgets, peer-run mental health spaces are expanding across North Carolina as state and local leaders invest in programs led by people with lived experience.

Maggie Kane founded Raleigh’s A Place at the Table café to erase the invisible lines she saw in traditional soup kitchens and food pantries.

New research shows how hurricanes can wash sewage, industrial chemicals and “everything in people’s garages” into North Carolina waterways, and how to prevent that in future storms.

The sudden cancellation of federal grants created after the Uvalde school shooting will halt planned expansions of school-based mental health services in North Carolina. The move has prompted pushback from state attorneys general and members of Congress.

Critics of the federal proposal to impose a work requirement on Medicaid recipients warn that red tape — not unemployment — would drive people off the rolls.

A push in Congress to limit provider taxes could strip billions in Medicaid funding from North Carolina.

When Hurricane Helene ripped through western North Carolina, it downed power lines, leaving tens of thousands of residents without electricity for days, even weeks.

North Carolina is one of seven states that still allow 18-year-olds to buy tobacco.