For a little more than a decade, UNC Health Care has provided care at WakeBrook, the mental health hospital in east Raleigh. Wake County owns the facility, but UNC has been the care provider. Earlier this year, UNC Health announced it will transition away from WakeBrook, a move advocates say...

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, has found that communities across the country are struggling to meet the demand for primary care physicians, as well as to retain those physicians in their...

It’s early morning in this small agricultural town in Central Florida and the pickers are already hunched over the bushes, plucking strawberries, the main crop out here. Fidel Sanchez instructs his workers to get rid of the fruit that fell and rotted on the ground. There’s a lot of it....

Union workers at Daimler Truck who make Freightliner and Western Star trucks and Thomas Built buses in North Carolina won significant raises and cost of living allowances. The United Auto Workers union announced late Friday it had struck a favorable new contract deal for 7,300 Daimler Truck North America workers....

Governor Roy Cooper tapped Joey Hopkins to serve as Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) last September, but Wednesday was his first day before the Senate Transportation Committee that will vote on the appointment. Hopkins, who has worked at NCDOT for more than 30 years in a...

Abortion continues to be a key part of Democrats’ election playbook in North Carolina, which for 2024 will include what abortion-rights advocates call an unprecedented investment in get-out-the-vote efforts. Planned Parenthood affiliated groups in North Carolina announced on Thursday a $10 million campaign in the state that largely focuses on...

The 7-year-old company that last year bought North Carolina-based Blue Force Technologies was chosen Wednesday for contract by the Air Force with one other ahead of three giants in American defense. Anduril Industries, headquartered in California and founded in 2017, was chosen as one of two vendors in the Collaborative...

As Fayetteville State University Chancellor Darrell T. Allison finished his third year at the helm of the storied campus on March 15, he had accomplishments to celebrate. Some of these: Enrollment is up and dropouts are down. Research grants from outside sources have nearly doubled, from $15.2 million in the...

The State Advisory Council on Indian Education (SACIE) shared its annual report with the State Board of Education earlier this month. The report, which SACIE presents to the Board each year, provides an analysis of American Indian students’ performance regarding end-of-grade (EOG) scores, dropout and graduation rates, and suspension data....

Cape Fear River Watch’s designated Riverkeeper is petitioning the Environmental Protection Agency to enforce protections for an industry he believes is at the heart of local water pollution. In September, Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Food & Water Watch, the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network, and 11 other groups sued the EPA...

Henderson County health officials are tracking a local outbreak of whooping cough. The Health Department has confirmed 27 cases, with most occurring among school-aged children, officials said in an April 25 news release. Parents, guardians and close contacts of the affected individuals are being notified by letter or phone call,...

Despite repeated efforts to pass a medical marijuana legalization bill by a powerful Republican lawmaker, North Carolina remains one of just a few states to not permit the drug’s medical or recreational use statewide. This has largely been due to there not being enough support among GOP lawmakers, who control...

North Carolina still elects a labor commissioner, whose main job is to ensure safe workplaces. That includes maintaining safe elevators that urban dwellers rely on to get to their office and apartments, which is why many associate the job with the commissioner’s photo on the inspection form. This year’s November...

If you’ve been placing online sports bets since FanDuel, DraftKings and the like went live in North Carolina last month, you might want to prepare for a bigger tax bill next year — even if you lose. That’s because of a quirk in the federal tax law, which Tony Mecia...

About one in six people released from North Carolina prisons in 2023 were homeless, according to figures provided to NC Newsline — a rate the state hopes to cut in half by 2030. That goal is one part of an executive order issued by Gov. Roy Cooper in January to...