In Martin County, it can be 20 miles or more to the closest emergency room. Healthcare gaps there show the finite reach of a ...

A rural North Carolina district stopped students from using screens on Tuesdays and Thursdays. A public health professor who studied the switch shared the results exclusively with NBC News.

Williamston, North Carolina — On a mid-August morning, Christopher Harrison stood in front of the shuttered Martin General Hospital recalling the day a year earlier when he snapped pictures as workers ...

Tyrrell County Manager David Clegg watched closely last week as lawmakers debated the merit of a constitutional amendment to ...

WASHINGTON — Though patients don’t rush through the doors of this emergency room anymore, an empty hospital in Williamston, North Carolina, offers an evocative illustration of why Republican Sen. Thom ...

North Carolina health officials are beginning to sketch out plans for turning the first wave of funding from a new federal program into on-the-ground changes for rural communities that have long ...

Want to find a rural town, get a mortgage on some country real estate, and live the good life? Who doesn’t right? Today we are looking at great rural towns in the Tar Heel State, North Carolina. North ...

NASHVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Ricky Brinkley has lived in rural North Carolina nearly all of his 65 years, and he likes it “out in the county,” past the street lights and bustle of the small towns that ...

In North Carolina, Jamie Ager is distancing himself from his national party to win a congressional seat.

WASHINGTON – Though patients don't rush through the doors of this emergency room anymore, an empty hospital in Williamston, North Carolina, offers an evocative illustration of why Republican Sen. Thom ...