Now that Hurricane Dorian has passed, many people will look back on what can be done differently in the future to prepare for storms. Dorian delivered a glancing blow to North Carolina, and many ...

North Carolina bill restricts public homeless encampments and increases penalties for certain drug offenses near homeless service providers.

In a surprise move on Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a proposed settlement with chemical manufacturer Chemours over the company’s contamination of major waterways in three states, ...

SouthLight's Social Determinants of Health team helps patients connect to housing, transportation and other resources to support recovery.

The EPA has designated microplastics as a priority contaminant group for the first time. In North Carolina, a statewide plastic bag fee was killed by the General Assembly. Policy has yet to match the ...

Eastern NC summer meal programs and pantries strive to keep hunger at bay for food-insecure children when school’s out as new ...

UNC Health, the University of North Carolina’s hospital system, has applied for permission to open a 92-bed hospital near downtown Asheville. North Carolina’s state-owned nonprofit health provider, ...

About a month ago, a young woman stopped by a bright green and blue bus parked outside the Alamance County Health Department, ...

For Black mothers in North Carolina, pregnancy risks are persistently high, but measures that have improved outcomes in other states have stalled here.