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 ...

People with disabilities have come from across the state to press the legislature for funds for services, increased pay for ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...