CONCORD, N.C. — In Meagan Beam’s dining room, a dozen 3D printers whir and clack away as they crank out plastic tiles with colorful raised letters, letter combinations and pictures on them. Former ...

Benevolence Farm’s expansion comes as more than one in four people in North Carolina leave state prisons homeless — a gap the state aims to close through new reentry housing efforts.

New research tallies the hidden health, environmental and economic impacts of litter — and why upstream fixes matter.

As NC Treasurer Brad Briner trims a massive budget deficit, he says part of the puzzle will be addressing the health of the workforce.

Prison officials are trying to reduce the risk of overdose by providing medications for opioid use disorder before release.

Some doctors now bill patients for surveys that screen for problems. Patients say they should not be charged for checking a few boxes.

Lawmakers express concern about left-leaning legal aid efforts, but groups say they’ve been misunderstood and other red states don’t do this.

After a month away from Raleigh, state lawmakers returned to the capital on Tuesday — along with crowds of protesters and supporters — for a session aimed at overriding vetoes issued by Democratic Gov ...

EPA says the change will cut red tape, but new research suggests regulators may already be missing major sources of contamination.

More than one in four people leaving North Carolina prisons in 2024 were released to homelessness, according to a reentry housing assessment presented at the July meeting of the Joint Reentry Council.

Rebecca Smith, a breast cancer survivor, didn’t think much about it in 2018 when Novant Health bought Lake Norman Oncology, the practice in Mooresville where she had regular checkups with her cancer ...