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Florence Adds to Woes of Struggling Water and Sewer Systems
By Kirk Ross Carolina Public Press After Florence, dozens of water and sewer systems throughout North Carolina are struggling. Many have been struggling since Matthew, two years ago. Dozens more were...
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Faith, Neighbors, Governments Team to Aid Recovery of Florence Survivors
By Thomas Goldsmith At first, Arthur Sargent, 83, of Fairmont, downplayed the trouble he and wife Doris went through when Hurricane Florence dumped torrents of rain on their Robeson County home. Wanda...
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FEMA Deadline Extension Crucial for Some Storm Victims
By Imari Scarbrough Carolina Public Press For some in North Carolina, an extra month to apply for individual assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency could make all the difference as...
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New Residency Program Aims to Keep Doctors in the Rural Southeast
By Taylor Knopf Boris Calderon was not your typical medical student. At 45 years old, the Army veteran lived in Fayetteville and worked as a paramedic when he applied for only one medical school: a...
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Environmentalists: Smithfield needs to get rid of lagoons and spray fields
By Greg Barnes For many, Smithfield Foods’ plans to turn hog waste into renewable natural gas is a welcome sign of progress for a company that has been vilified by environmentalists almost since it...
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State senators unveil their budget, negotiations can begin
By Taylor Knopf and Emily Davis State Senate leaders rolled out their two-year budget proposal for North Carolina on Tuesday, highlighting several health care provisions. State senators want to address...
View Article2019 Health & Human Services Budget – House & Senate
By Rose Hoban After 2018’s unusual budget process this year’s budget has unfolded in a more “traditional” way. The House unveiled it’s proposal to spend $5.569 billion on health and human services...
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PFAS shows up in Haw River, Pittsboro water, but gets limited local attention
This story has been updated with additional information provided by the NC Dept. of Environmental Quality. By Greg Barnes On a windblown day in March, Emily Sutton wore rubber wading boots as she stood...
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Hurricane Florence left destruction but also information on how to prepare...
By Anne Blythe Cedric Harrison grew up in Wilmington and saw his share of storms. Until last year he always sheltered in place when hurricane warnings sent North Carolina’s port city into an altered...
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Keep up with how Hurricane Dorian is affecting health in NC
By Greg Barnes, Anne Blythe, Yen Duong, Thomas Goldsmith, Rose Hoban 7:30 p.m. – Tornadoes predicted as Dorian’s eye approaches As Hurricane Dorian approaches, tornadoes are becoming more prevalent in...
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Robeson County residents still reeling from two prior hurricanes
By Greg Barnes It’s been three years since Hurricane Matthew crashed into Robeson County, causing water to bubble up through the plumbing of Isa Alvarado’s mobile home and leaving behind a...
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Chemours vows to become ‘best in the world’ at controlling PFAS
By Greg Barnes During a tour of Chemours last week, plant manager Brian Long stopped near a maze of pipes to explain new carbon adsorption systems that the company says are reducing airborne emissions...
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Local governments, residents having to foot bill for industrial contamination
By Greg Barnes More and more, local governments and North Carolina residents are being forced to spend millions of dollars to protect public health by fixing contamination problems caused by industry....
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Coronavirus Today – March 31 – Utility shut-off bans, prison update,...
By NC Health News staff Governor kicks search for alternative care sites into high gear As North Carolina enters a phase in which the number of hospitalizations of people infected with COVID-19 is...
View ArticleN.C. domestic violence shelters awaiting a surge
By Greg Barnes In Wake and many other counties across North Carolina, emergency calls to domestic violence shelters have remained relatively flat as the coronavirus continues its spread. And that has...
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Coronavirus invading N.C. meat processing plants
By Greg Barnes Additional contributions by Enlace Latino NC staff It didn’t take long for the coronavirus to sweep through a Smithfield Foods plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. On March 26, the plant...
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Two more processing plants identified as having coronavirus outbreaks
By Greg Barnes Two more meat processing plants in North Carolina are experiencing coronavirus outbreaks, bringing the total number of meat and poultry plants with COVID outbreaks to seven, state health...
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Smithfield’s largest slaughterhouse struggling to contain virus
By Greg Barnes Early Monday, Lumberton lawyer Dale Godfrey said he got word from workers at Smithfield Foods’ Tar Heel plant that the world’s largest hog slaughterhouse might have to close because of...
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Coronavirus Today – May 5 – Cooper eases restrictions as of Friday, reporting...
By North Carolina Health News staff Wear, wait and wash in next phase North Carolinians could have a few more places to leave home for after 5 p.m. Friday, when a modified statewide stay-at-home order...
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Coronavirus Today – May 15 COVID testing guidance; too few Dare County test...
By North Carolina Health News staff Big testing-site gap in northeastern NC After the state Department of Health and Human Services compiled a list of sites across the state where people can get tested...
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