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From child welfare to climate: Top NC health stories to watch in 2026

by Rose Hoban, Will Atwater, Jaymie Baxley, Anne Blythe, Rachel Crumpler, Jennifer Fernandez and Taylor Knopf January 2, 2026January 2, 2026

Six people stand with shovels in their hands digging up dirt to mark the groundbreaking of tiny homes on a farm to house formerly incarcerated women reentering the community

NC reentry program turns to tiny homes to help women leaving prison

by Rachel Crumpler December 16, 2025December 15, 2025

A prison barbed wire fence. As people exit prison, they are high risk of overdose and more prisons are providing MOUD before release

NC prisons expand addiction treatment before release to curb deadly overdose risk

by Rachel Crumpler December 4, 2025December 5, 2025

A woman stands at a podium with the seal of North Carolina on it talking about the launch of FACT teams to help people with serious mental illnesses leaving incarceration

NC invests $9.5 million in teams to help people with serious mental illness after their release from incarceration

by Rachel Crumpler November 10, 2025November 9, 2025

A graphic depicting the revolving door of people with mental illnesses cycling from the community to psychiatric hospitals and jails. A person stands in the center with doors to each facility. Arrows at the bottom show that stable housing and community care could help stabilize someone in the community.

Charlotte light rail killing exposes gaps in NC’s mental health system

by Rachel Crumpler and Taylor Knopf September 25, 2025December 20, 2025

Three people sit aboard a bus that has been transformed to provide mobile reentry support to formerly incarcerated people.

One stop at a time, mobile reentry center helps people get back on their feet after incarceration

by Rachel Crumpler September 11, 2025January 23, 2026