The occasion for Monday’s gathering of top current and former elected officials was the renaming of the North Carolina Cancer Hospital at UNC Health in Chapel Hill to honor the late Senate leader Marc Basnight.

Negotiations over Medicaid expansion and related regulatory challenges aren’t close to finished just yet.

Senate leader Phil Berger on Tuesday reiterated his opposition to the N.C. Healthcare Association’s proposed compromise on Certificate of Need regulations.

After months of finger-pointing and little movement, are we finally getting close to a compromise on Medicaid expansion?

Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley told legislative leaders and hospital executives this week that “a failure to act in September” on Medicaid expansion “will have significant health and financial consequences.”

In a section of his new autobiography, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson highlights personal financial troubles that stemmed from losing a job at a furniture manufacturing facility in the wake of NAFTA in the 1990s.

Given the diversity of opinions on abortion, many candidates this year would rather talk about their opponents’ alleged “extreme” views than detail their own position on the issue.

The N.C. Healthcare Association is highlighting a new report from research firm Kauffman Hall that shows increasing revenue turbulence for hospitals across the country.

Gov. Roy Cooper said Tuesday that he’s still hopeful state lawmakers will reach an agreement on Medicaid expansion, although he acknowledged it won’t happen until September at the earliest.

Tribune and Business North Carolina magazine publisher Ben Kinney interviewed Louis Rubio, co-founder and CEO of Hemp Generation, a Cary-based hemp brand and retailer.

A few weeks ago, Gov. Roy Cooper voiced optimism that a compromise to expand Medicaid could be reached by the end of July.

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Gov. Roy Cooper announced Monday that he will lift the state of emergency on Aug. 15, so he’s effectively keeping it around an extra month to allow transition time to the new regulations. It’s currently set to expire July 15, under the extension Cooper signed months ago.