The burden and cost of caring for aging parents falls hardest on low-income households, a new report suggests.

Only 4% of hiring was for new positions, according to an analysis that points to retention, safety and geography as the biggest challenges.

Chemicals used to reduce coolant’s climate impact end up breaking down in the atmosphere into trifluoroacetic acid, or TFA, a pollutant that persists in the environment. Many researchers classify TFA ...

Across North Carolina, health systems are spending billions to grow and stake out new territory. Will patients be better off?

Companies market wood pellets and hog biogas as climate solutions. Critics say neighbors are exposed to health risks and life quality issues.

The agreement resolves a dispute over health care costs that left thousands of state employees wondering whether they could afford to keep their doctors.

On a heavily wooded tract near the intersection of U.S. 1 and N.C. 540 — a 220-acre spot in southern Apex so void of infrastructure it shows up only as GPS coordinates on a map, the Duke Endowment ...

Needle exchanges, disease testing, providing Narcan and other harm reduction efforts navigate complexities of Western NC communities.

Research shows natural gas pipelines — and the public health risks they carry — are concentrated in low-income and minority areas with higher rates of poverty.

The project fills a gap in a state where recovery housing falls short of need, and money, stigma and a lack of affordable housing stand in the way.

In December 2023, the attorney general’s office did just that. Brought by then Attorney General Josh Stein, now governor, and continued under Attorney General Jeff Jackson, it accuses HCA and Mission ...

Research found that food-insecure older adults who received two weeks of home-delivered meals after hospitalization had lower odds of early readmission.