Some states want to block SNAP recipients from using benefits to buy sugary foods as part of the "make America healthy again" movement.

Western North Carolina food banks hope their communities and elected officials start speaking up. Still reeling from Helene, the federal government’s Local Food Purchase Assistance program ...

Food banks across North Carolina are confronting the loss of hundreds of thousands of meals for people in need because of the recent elimination of funding for a federal program. The U.S. Department ...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as Food Stamps, is a critical resource ... such as Rhode Island and North Dakota, where payments are made on February 1 ...

A woman in York County was arrested and charged with fraudulently taking $17,643 in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, according to the South Carolina Department of Social ...

The nonprofit Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina is one of seven food ... “Please reconsider this program,” she said. “These are our farmers. These are neighbors across our ...

Forklifts move swiftly, transporting pallets of food ... North Carolina food banks temporarily frozen. Although the funds were unfrozen earlier this month and are now available to spend, the ...

The Asheville-based group, which serves 16 counties in Western North Carolina, received about $1.3 million through the program last year. That money allowed the group “to source healthy food ...