Too few retailers check IDs when NC kids buy tobacco.
By Emily Vespa North Carolina is teetering on the edge of losing roughly $5.4 million in federal funds for combating the opioid epidemic and supporting…
By Emily Vespa North Carolina is teetering on the edge of losing roughly $5.4 million in federal funds for combating the opioid epidemic and supporting…
Staff Report NC Health News has been lauded with an organization-record 20 awards in the annual North Carolina Press Association editorial contest, including five first…
By Lucas Thomae Carolina Public Press For months now, Michael Dean Smith said, he has feared his infant daughter will be hurt or killed in a drunk-driving…
By Grace Vitaglione Near the end of the recently recessed legislative session, the N.C. House of Representatives made an extensive budget proposal on how to…
By Rachel Crumpler Katherine Farris has been an abortion provider for more than 20 years, and she says that this past year has been the…
By Rose Hoban Just as in Marvel comics, when a superhero summons the team with the “Avengers assemble!” rallying cry, one member of the national…
By Taylor Knopf A U.S. Senate report released last week accused four of the nation’s largest behavioral health companies of putting profits above the safety…
By Jennifer Fernandez and Grace Vitaglione RALEIGH — Emma Biggs walked into the legislative building on June 26 knowing she likely would be arrested for…
By Anne Blythe Rep. John Torbett, a Republican from the small Gaston County town of Stanley, lingered with reporters after a June 11 legislative meeting…
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