The race between Susan Collins and Troy Jackson is one of this year's most high-profile Senate contests. To win, both candidates will need support from an especially powerful voting bloc: Maine women.

Summer camps are all about embracing the outdoors. But as climate change fuels dangerous heat and unhealthy air, the outdoors is becoming something camps must protect children from.

Spinner, tiger and smooth hammerhead sharks have all been spotted either by research teams or by members of the public off the coast of New England this year and in the past few years. They’re likely here because of climate change, says researchers.

The New England coast used to be crowded with wild oyster reefs. But the reefs have been decimated by overfishing, pollution, development and climate change. Aran Mooney, who studies underwater acoustics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, is researching whether sound can help with efforts to restore oyster beds

“As a little kid, there was no women's professional baseball league," says Beth Greenwood. "So I just dreamed of playing for the Boston Red Sox.”

The team's 15-game win streak has tied the club record set in 1946.

Earning a Boston Marathon bib is one of the toughest feats in distance running. On Wednesday, the Boston Athletic Association said it would make the process a smidge easier.

Immigrant residents and those who work closely with them said the sense of safety and belonging that newcomers have long felt in the city is under threat.

At peak hours, the solar fleet in the region produced 2,500 megawatts less than had been forecasted.

Hundreds of people turned out for a vigil in Biddeford and rally in Portland Monday night to call for justice for a 25-year-old Colombian man fatally shot by federal immigration agents who were looking for someone else.