By Michelle Crouch
Co-published with The Charlotte Ledger
Measles, once considered eliminated in the U.S., is back in a big way.
Driven by declining vaccine rates and growing vaccine hesitancy, the United States experienced its largest numb...
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By Michelle Crouch
Co-published with The Charlotte Ledger
Measles, once considered eliminated in the U.S., is back in a big way.
Driven by declining vaccine rates and growing vaccine hesitancy, the United States experienced its largest numb...
By Ashley Fredde
North Carolina could face hundreds of millions of dollars in new costs — or risk losing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program entirely — if counties fail to meet new federal requirements, state lawmakers were warned Tuesday during a Joint Legislative Oversight Committee hearing in Raleigh.
The new requirements were included in the ...
By Jaymie Baxley
North Carolina has less than a year to implement a federal rule requiring “able-bodied” Medicaid participants to prove they are working, volunteering or attending school for at least 80 hours a month.
A provision of the federal budget — the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
By Rachel Crumpler
Mecklenburg County sent the second-highest number of young people into North Carolina’s detention system last year — yet it has no juvenile detention center.
In 2025, 2,186 people were admitted to juvenile detention centers statewide, according to data provided to NC Health News by the