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Many of the state's key industries are already struggling to find enough workers.

Three years ago, a woman incarcerated in the Barnstable County jail asked a member of the sheriff’s staff for help with her writing. The jail’s response became a class for incarcerated women on writing their own life stories. CAI’s Jennette Barnes joined the class for a day.

In an email on Sunday, a spokesperson for the Lamont administration said changes to the program, as outlined in Lamont's original budget proposal, are no longer expected.

Mary Lake drives all over the Northeast in the spring, shearing people's sheep and talking with them about the health of their flock.

The measure would direct $4 million in unclaimed funds to conservation.

The bill would require manufacturers to collect and dispose of alkaline and lithium-ion batteries across the state.

The Guard’s deployment, now surpassing 100 days, is the first combat mission of its kind in a decade. And families don’t know when their service members will return home.

Barbara Lopez is a founder of Make the Road Connecticut, an organization that fights for the rights of immigrant, Latino, and working-class communities. She looks back on her years of leadership and reflects on the lessons learned that will help her continue to grow as a leader.

What does the livelihood of the New England fishing industry have to do with the war in Iran? It turns out, quite a lot.

The Trump administration does not want children to have access to gender-affirming care — and is using federal policies and financial threats to make that happen. Massachusetts is among the states assuring families the care will be protected. But those promises are hard to keep when hospitals, including Baystate Health in western Massachusetts, stop providing the treatment on their own.