Canceled grants and shifting federal priorities are halting progress — and prompting a legal fight to protect climate initiatives and health.

An amendment that the bill’s sponsors said would address concerns on practice period wasn’t ready in time for Wednesday’s meeting.

Legislators first reduced that time during the pandemic. Since then, the crash rate among 16-year-old drivers has risen 13 percent.

Federal workers, grant recipients worry as they await details of a restructuring plan promoted by US DHHS Secretary Robert F.

Repurposed newspaper racks are giving residents free, discreet access to supplies that can reduce their risk of overdose and ...

Erik Ramsey’s suicide in solitary confinement highlights rising mental illness and a jump in such deaths in North Carolina ...

Advocates say school-based telehealth care reduces absenteeism, ensures students receive routine care, and can even boost ...

Bills in the N.C. General Assembly facilitate work requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries if the federal government gives the okay.

Environmental justice efforts at the ten U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regional offices have stopped and ...

The legislation would increase state oversight of local social services departments' work on foster care and find placements more quickly.

The layoffs at HHS purged FOIA workers across federal health agencies, including the FDA, the NIH and the CDC.

As NC delays setting limits on 1,4-dioxane, utilities like CFPUA face mounting costs to protect drinking water from upstream pollution.