An innovative NC reentry program breaks ground in Alamance County. By fall 2026, they hope to offer tiny homes to formerly incarcerated women in need of housing.
As researchers uncover even more PFAS contamination in NC, the Trump administration wants to loosen PFAS regulations.
Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare enrollees could see increases in premiums, deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses in 2026.
“My biggest worry is keeping food on the table for my children,” said one North Carolina parent of the SNAP freeze. “Parents like me are doing everything we can to survive, and sometimes it becomes a daily struggle.”
The Perinatal Quality Collaborative of NC has been credited with reducing C-section births, boosting breastfeeding and cutting infection rates in the tiniest babies.
Health care experts and advocates for the poor converge on the NC legislature, calling on them to break their Medicaid stalemate.
North Carolina's lack of child psychiatrists, especially in rural areas, leaves pediatricians to face conditions beyond their specialty. Here's how the NC Psychiatry Access Line (NC-PAL) helps.
Through a model called direct primary care, more NC employers—like the city of Charlotte—are bypassing insurance and paying doctors directly, “like a gym membership for health care.”
NC, LGBTQ+ organizations adjust after the Trump administration eliminated the 988 hotline option for specialized mental health services.
Despite North Carolina's brutally hot summers, about 21% of NC prisons are without air-conditioning.
