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Many hope this NC county’s hospital won’t close. It’s the only one around.
April 24, 2025
Washington Regional Medical Center in rural Plymouth is a lifeline in a barren health landscape. But financial problems could threaten that.
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Too costly to keep, but too important to lose. Solving paradox of NC rural women’s health services
March 19, 2025
Reversing trend of NC rural women’s health care services drying up will require tracking, enforcement and incentives in policies and laws.
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Deserting Women
March 18, 2025
Rural North Carolina counties are seeing growing deserts of health services for women at local hospitals, with serious health implications. Multiple pressures are driving this trend. But solutions may be available.
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Financial pressures prompt women’s services cuts at NC rural hospitals
March 18, 2025
Women’s services often lose money for NC rural hospitals. State doesn’t track lost services or require hospitals to sustain care.
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Deserts for women’s health care services expand in rural NC counties
March 17, 2025
NC data shows labor and delivery and other women’s services reduced or eliminated at rural hospitals, with negative health implications.
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For Lumbee tribe, ‘the time has come’ to finally be federally recognized
March 10, 2025
Over 100 years. That’s how long the Lumbee have been denied federal recognition. Now, President Donald Trump is pushing for that to change.
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Feeling emboldened, NC agencies taking ASAP approach to DEI efforts
February 07, 2025
Some have done it quietly. Others publicly. In eliminating diversity initiatives, North Carolina is joining a host of companies and colleges.
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Cities are dumping this chemical in NC rivers — and getting paid to do it
January 28, 2025
Is 1,4-dioxane dangerous? Opinions vary. But that hasn’t stopped cities, like Reidsville, from releasing the chemical into the drinking water of communities.
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Promised lands: Western NC farmers wait for Helene aid to come. And wait.
January 22, 2025
Reeling from losses to land and livestock, many farmers are holding out for help. If it doesn’t come soon, spring may yield a bitter harvest.
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Helene damage costs in NC more than $53 billion. Who will pay is unclear.
November 26, 2024
Mounting costs from storm damage, economic losses and expected repairs continues to mount. Also the latest county breakdown in lives lost.
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Protests put some final NC election results on hold. Candidates hope to disqualify enough voters to win.
November 22, 2024
Republicans finishing 2nd in close contests for North Carolina Supreme Court and legislature protest groups of voters, hoping to change the outcome. Meanwhile, recounts are underway in nearly all of the state’s counties.
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Conditions after Helene could make NC mountain wildfires difficult to contain
November 20, 2024
Loss of infrastructure, accumulation of storm debris could fuel wildfires, make it difficult for firefighters to reach blazes in Western NC.
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Planned Morrisville factory adds to growing NC role in ‘battery belt’
November 11, 2024
Forge Battery, owners of projected plant in Wake County, remain optimistic about prospects of clean energy economy despite political change.
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More North Carolina voters cast early ballots in 2024
November 05, 2024
A look at how the party, race, gender and ethnic demographics of early voting in North Carolina in 2024 compared to previous years.
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Lawmakers direct Western NC counties to add early voting sites
October 24, 2024
General Assembly nearly united in mandating more early voting sites. Measure will really only affect Henderson and McDowell, GOP strongholds.
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