Legislators get competing gun regulation messages
By Jennifer Fernandez Gun rights supporters want North Carolina to continue relaxing restrictions, asking legislators last week to get rid of the state permit required…
By Jennifer Fernandez Gun rights supporters want North Carolina to continue relaxing restrictions, asking legislators last week to get rid of the state permit required…
By Taylor Knopf North Carolinians in need of mental health support now have more places to call — and soon will have more places to…
By Liz Carey A new study from the American Academy of Family Physicians’ Robert Graham Center (AAFP), co-funded by the Milbank Memorial Fund and The Physicians Foundation,…
By Rachel Crumpler Ninety-five percent of incarcerated people in North Carolina prisons will one day return home — roughly 18,000 people this year alone. But…
By Rose Hoban Now that Gov. Roy Cooper has checked expanding Medicaid off his gubernatorial to-do list, he has shifted his health care focus to…
By Anne Blythe There’s an old saying that age is just a number. But when you look at the state demographer’s projected growth of the…
By Will Atwater Seven months after a provision added to the 2023-24 North Carolina state budget prohibited municipalities from establishing single-use plastic bag ordinances, a…
By Michelle Crouch When it comes to growth, it seems like hospitals can’t get enough of it. Across the country, a tidal wave of hospital…
By Will Atwater If you’ve lived in North Carolina for the past seven years, especially in regions that get water from the Cape Fear River…
By Jaymie Baxley In September 2023, Sara Nichols went before the Committee on Energy and Commerce in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C.,…