Today you can drive through many once-thriving towns in rural North Carolina and view main streets where formerly thriving ...

Rural North Carolina counties are seeing growing deserts of health services for women at local hospitals, with serious health ...

Carbon monoxide “is an odorless, colorless gas that kills without warning,” according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...

Yonder profiles senior citizens who made the choice to relocate from urban to rural areas for their retirement.

A little over 39% of all Medicaid beneficiaries in North Carolina live in rural counties, according to an NC Health News analysis of the latest enrollment data from the state Department of Health and ...

NC data shows labor and delivery and other women's services reduced or eliminated at rural hospitals, with negative health ...

So, what is it going to take for our state to recognize the critical problems in our rural counties? Where is the commitment ...

The state must pursue a technology-driven remedy anchored by three strategic pillars: workforce development, energy and ...

One in 10 older adults across the country reported experiencing some form of abuse during the previous year, new report shows ...

Nine states — including Virginia — have so-called trigger laws that would automatically end Medicaid expansion if the feds ...