An audit of the state's distribution of tens of millions in disaster recovery funds finds the N.C. Department of Public Safety failed to provide proper oversight of how the money was spent.
North Carolina emergency rooms reported hundreds of visits for gastrointestinal illnesses like diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal pain in the weeks during and after Hurricanes Florence, in 2018, and Matthew, in 2016.
The rings of stately pines in North and South Carolina offer telling long-term evidence of climate change and a forecast for the future -- the last 300 years have gotten wetter, making hurricanes ever more dangerous.
From climate-fueled storms to COVID-19, mounting catastrophes are sowing stress and trauma. The country’s one program to help reaches only a fraction of survivors.
NC Health News journalists worked with high school students to help them express how they and their families made it through 2018's Hurricane Florence.
