North Carolina Rep. Jennifer Balkcom (back center) meets with advocates of the Healthy Opportunity Pilots program, which was defunded in the state budget for 2025-2027, in Raleigh, June 4, 2025.

The National Weather Service in Charlotte has issued a Heat Advisory, warning of heat indices up to 108 degrees and advising caution due to health risks.

Proposed budgets in the North Carolina House and Senate for fiscal years 2025-2027 don’t include money for North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots program, according to a June 2 statement on the ...

North Carolina Governor Josh Stein requested $87 million in the state budget for the HOP program, Jay Ludlam, deputy secretary for Medicaid at state Health and Human Services, told the Times-News ...

"Dr. Greenblatt is an innovator and public health advocate with a long track record of increasing access to mental and physical health care in North Carolina," Dev Sangvai, N.C. Health and Human ...

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North Carolina Governor Josh Stein requested $87 million in the state budget for the HOP program, Jay Ludlam, deputy secretary for Medicaid at state Health and Human Services, told the Times-News ...

North Carolina Governor Josh Stein requested $87 million in the state budget for the HOP program, Jay Ludlam, deputy secretary for Medicaid at state Health and Human Services, told the Times-News ...

The NC Climate and Health team also works to inform North Carolinians about the dangers of heat and what preventive measures can be taken to stay safe. Most recently, the NC Climate and Health team ...

A landslide and flash flooding forced the closure of Interstate 40 near the Tennessee–North Carolina state line, halting traffic between Cosby, TN, and Clyde, NC. The I-40 closure, near Mile ...

Tens of millions of people sweltered across the U.S. Northeast and Midwest as record-high heat disrupted electricity supplies ...