Child care solutions are essentially, say WNC employers, who have been increasingly vocal this year about the need for ...

NC's legislature redirected human trafficking initiative funds, causing delays that disrupted vital services for sexual abuse survivors.

House Bill 499 and companion Senate Bill 480, filed March 24 and 25, would create a program for paid family and medical leave ...

Creek and environmental cleanups reveal a growing plastic problem that advocates say lawmakers can no longer ignore.

An organ procurement organization filed a lawsuit to stop Atrium Health from taking over organ donation services at Atrium ...

Reversing trend of NC rural women’s health care services drying up will require tracking, enforcement and incentives in ...

Legislation would require retirement communities to increase their financial reporting and transparency — new rules experts ...

Josh Stein, budget, tax cuts, health care, child care, health workforce, Healthy Opportunities, shortages, working families, ...

Inconsistent enforcement and penalty appeals mean some assisted living facilities get away with light punishments, advocates say.

Lawmakers approved millions for computer software to track child welfare cases in 2015, but there’s still little to show for it.

He founded the Preventing Tobacco Addiction Foundation in 1996 and began to push for state legislatures to raise the tobacco sales age. At first, he had scant success. But in 2003, a town in ...

Women’s services often lose money for NC rural hospitals. State doesn’t track lost maternity services or require hospitals to sustain care.