SUN Bucks, a new food assistance program, gives families with school-age children a stipend of $120 per child to help pay for ...

Weeks before one of North Carolina’s state-supported behavioral health management agencies merged with another one in eastern North Carolina, there was a flurry of questionable financial activity that ...

In total, the Eastpointe CEO received the following payments in December 2023: A) COLA stands for cost of living adjustment. The CEO’s salary was $375,100 through November 2023. The COLA was first ...

Map of suicide rates (ages 10 or older) in North Carolina by county of residence in 2021. Some pockets of the state are confronting higher suicide rates. Credit: NC Violent Death Reporting System 2021 ...

In Florida, an initiative started by the Cocoa Beach Rotary Club called Drown Zero aims to provide protection at beaches without lifeguards on duty.

Luana Gibbs’ son Ryan and his girlfriend Sarah in April 2017. They died in June of an overdose death, Gibbs said, which sparked her work to address the opioid crisis in Hyde County. Credit: Luana ...

According to the EPA, the presence of enterococci and other fecal bacteria indicators in water can stem from several sources, such as stormwater runoff, sewage discharged from recreational boats, ...

Organizations helping with substance use disorder unanimously recognize housing as the key element and a “foundation” of successful recovery.

Hackers increasingly exploit rural hospitals’ lapses in cybersecurity. But new initiatives aim to combat these cyberattacks.