By Thomas Goldsmith Dolores Gardner of Greenville looks forward to receiving farmers-market-fresh vegetables along with meals delivered to the home she shares with her husband Austin.  Those are coming from Pitt County Meals on Wheels in July as one of the services financed through Home and Community Care Block Grants, funds that are expected to

By Anne Blythe As the sun set in leafy west Durham, leaving a palette of salmon- and gold-colored streaks across the sky, a steady stream of people walked up to the Asbury United Methodist Church on a windy Thursday evening. Upbeat salsa music wafted from an amplifier in the church side yard. Rapid response operators

By Liora Engel-Smith Come July 1, North Carolina’s Medicaid program is being placed into the hands of commercial insurers, and this time, state officials say, the transition is all but guaranteed. The move will change Medicaid, the largest public insurer in the state, into something that looks and acts more like private health insurance. North

By Hannah Critchfield For many student athletes, track meets are the culmination of weeks and months of hard work. Practice, practice, practice might get you to the top of the podium– but that doesn’t mean all the endurance-building sprints or the weight-lifting repetitions are fun along the way. Competitions are where it all pays off.

By Greg Barnes North Carolina environmental regulators have penalized Chemours nearly $200,000 for failing to meet terms of a consent order and violations related to the construction and installation of required measures to treat residual “forever chemicals” at the company’s Fayetteville Works plant. Those treatment measures became operational in September at what is referred to