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Federal curveball upends NC’s plans for Medicaid work rule
NC DHHS officials Debra Farrington, left, Michael Leighs and Melanie Bush at the i2i Center for Integrative Health’s spring conference in Raleigh on June 9, 2026.

By Jaymie Baxley  North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human ...

Posted: June 11, 2026, 8:23 am
Dog deaths at Swannanoa boarding facility point to holes in NC animal welfare protections
Photo shows two huskies, Melo and Pneuma, one mostly white and one brown with white markings sitting in front of a flowering bush. They were healthy before their deaths in April, 2026 at a boarding kennel in Swannanoa, NC called Inner Knowing Canine Connections.

By Skye Crawford Morgan Glenn parted from her dogs for the first t...

Posted: June 10, 2026, 8:15 am
NC expands specialized mental health supervision to all 100 counties
A group photo of dozens of people working with the Specialty Mental Health Supervision program to support people with serious mental illness. They are posing by the water.

By Rachel Crumpler When Tracy Lee worked as a probation/parole off...

Posted: June 9, 2026, 8:28 am

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