North Carolina Health News

By Liz Carey

The Daily Yonder

Across the country, states are grappling with how to allocate their portion of funds from the

By Jennifer Allen

Coastal Review

Funding has been cut for a state-run environmental education program and the two-member team that manages the 30-plus year outreach effort, a move widely criticized by educators an...

By Taylor Knopf

For families of people with severe mental health needs, a frustrating pattern emerges. Mobile crisis teams come to the home repeatedly. Trips to the emergency room add up. Involuntary commitments lead to short psychiatric hospital stays. And the cycle repeats itself.

Some say their loved ones are harder to reach because of delus...

By Rachel Crumpler

As last year’s state budget stalemate stretched into January of this year, N.C. Department of Adult Correction Secretary Leslie Cooley Dismukes laid out the crises facing her department.

Staffing shortages pushing prison operations to...

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Toward Zero Waste’s SHARE program teaches students to reduce food waste and help feed hungry classmates.

The program has grown from eight pilot schools in spring 2025 to 37 schools, and more schools are waiting to join.

Advocates say adding dairy could let schools recover...