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

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

A little over 39% of all Medicaid beneficiaries in North Carolina live in rural counties, according to an NC Health News ...

A first-in-the-nation effort to reopen a shuttered medical center as a Rural Emergency Hospital is moving closer to finish line.

According to a 2023 study from the N.C. Department of Commerce, about one in four agriculture workers in North Carolina are immigrants.

Rob Christensen’s new book is “Southern News, Southern Politics: How a Newspaper Defined a State for a Century.” ...

Executive orders have also targeted minority groups, as the Trump administration has terminated diversity, equity and ...

Scott S. Greenberger, Kentucky Lantern March Working-age adults who live in small towns and rural areas are more likely to be ...

Feral hogs are a menace to farmers across the US, causing at least $2.5 billion in damage annually. There’s only one way to stop the damage: eradication — a difficult but doable option that's hampered ...

Forsyth and Guilford counties, as well as North Carolina's other urban counties, could be represented by just one state ...

Administrative disbursements ratio was deemed best in the country for North Carolina, helping send the state to the top ...

Medicaid cuts could disproportionately impact rural areas, where working-age adults rely heavily on the program. With ...