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For residents of rural North Carolina, quality health care can seem nonexistent. Let alone affordable. Now, one of the only options for low-cost, low-barrier medical care is under threat: community health centers.

The Cape Fear River Basin is the source of drinking water for 1.5 million North Carolina residents. It is also where three municipal governments — Asheboro, Greensboro and Reidsville — are legally dumping dangerous levels of 1,4-dioxane, a colorless industrial solvent linked to cancer.

Another year, another drought for North Carolina farmers, who head into spring planting season with a lot of uncertainty.

In a break with previous administration, new NC Treasurer Brad Briner says higher premiums, not legislative fixes, needed for NC Health Plan.

The Office of the State Auditor (OSA) released its audit of the Department of Health and Human Services' oversight of nursing homes, accusing the department of consistently failing to conduct timely inspections and investigations of nursing homes across the state.

Even though longshoremen agreed to end port strike after three days, the flow of supplies has been affected, will slow down Helene recovery.

North Carolina’s state treasurer Dale Folwell has put out an urgent call to shore up funding for state health plan. Lawmakers haven’t budged.

Rain in July helped most NC farms recover from June drought, but corn crop devastated. Some counties had too much rain and some not enough.