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Jamila Headley, executive director of The Patients Union, said Attorney General Jeff Jackson must fully investigate the WakeMed-Atrium merger and make the final, enforceable language around pricing public to the fullest extent permitted by law. (Photo: Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline)
By Clayton Henkel
Three weeks after a divided Wake County Board of Commissioners gave its approval for Atrium Health to merge with WakeMed, a coalition of health advocates, state employees and nonprofit groups says there are far too many unanswered questions.
Wednesday’s news conference took place just hours before state Treasurer Brad Briner announced most Atrium facilities will no longer be in-network for State Health Plan members in 2027. It’s unclear what that might mean for state employees who rely on WakeMed for healthcare.
Endangered red wolf pups Cane, Champ, Puck, Stormy and Whaler prepare for transport from Durham to a new conservation center in New York. (Photo: Museum of Life and Science)
By Trevon Spencer
Ten endangered red wolves were transported between North Carolina and New York Tuesday as part of a coordinated effort to preserve the critically endangered species.
Pilots to the Rescue — a nonprofit that uses volunteer pilots to transport animals — flew three red wolves from the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, New York, to Raleigh Regional Airport in Person County.
The front of the Dillard School Apartments, where former students once entered for classes. (Photo: Tre Spencer/NC Newsline)
By Trevon Spencer
YANCEYVILLE — When Cassandra Henderson returned to Dillard Junior High School, memories from her time there decades ago came roaring back.
She remembers the school bus dropping her off at the front steps, the hallways with metal lockers lining the walls and the auditorium where students gathered. Even the small church across the street is still there.
State archaeologists with the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources examined the grounds of the Capitol Oct. 13 for historical artifacts. (Photo: Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline)
By Clayton Henkel
At first glance, you might mistake the freshly dug hole on the State Capitol grounds in Raleigh for a shallow grave, especially so close to Halloween. But David Cranford, an assistant state archaeologist with the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, assured passersby Tuesday it was nothing so ghoulish.
Cranford and a team from the North Carolina Office of State Archaeology were looking for any archaeological material under a small parcel of the capitol grounds prior to the installation of a new Revolutionary War monument.
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