A budget provision about dental Medicaid services, ambulatory surgical centers confounds oral health organizations, advocates.

Parents and providers warn that changes to treatment reauthorization and who can provide autism therapy could mean many children lose care.

By Skye Crawford Ben Ingraham wanted to be a doctor. He planned to attend medical school after serving as a U.S. Navy corpsman, but his time in the military was unexpectedly cut short. A traumatic ...

State Health Plan leaders say premiums will rise this year, but they’ve designed the plan so that employees can save big if ...

Gov. Josh Stein created a 32-member commission to make it easier for people to access government in buildings, old and new, and online.

Program won’t try to eliminate NC maternity deserts, but will find ways to ease burden on rural mothers needing obstetric healthcare.

ECU Health gets funding needed to begin converting the shuttered Martin General facility into a Rural Emergency Hospital.

The nonprofit becomes official provider for N.C.'s Feminine Hygiene Products program, shifting from school grants to statewide distribution.

A politically diverse North Carolina church has united around forgiving medical debt, raising thousands of dollars to erase millions in unpaid medical bills and showing that helping neighbors can ...

Across North Carolina, the debate over AI data centers is intensifying as local residents, county officials and state lawmakers clash over whether to block or accept new projects — and who should bear ...

Scotland County Manager April Snead spent this year’s budget season outlining the kinds of tradeoffs that local governments face every spring: which capital projects can move forward, which can wait ...