The latest New England stories on topics like climate change and the environment, the economy, health, racial equity, culture and politics — as reported by newsrooms of the New England News Collaborative, a 9-station consortium of the region's top public media organizations.
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Roughly 100 people were arrested Wednesday evening at UNH and Dartmouth after forming encampments and calling for divestiture from businesses linked to the Israeli government.
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The Sheffield Historical Society unveiled a new headstone for Black Civil War soldier William D. Jones on Wednesday. His family members and about one hundred people from the town gathered to celebrate his military service.
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Two of the sites, encompassing nearly 254,000 acres, are off the Maine coast. The remaining six are located off Massachusetts.
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A researcher, who's written a book on modern protests like the ones were seeing at Yale, UConn, Columbia and other campuses, said they aren't as effective as protests of the past.
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At Yale, demonstrators were told that students who remained in the encampment would be arrested and subject to suspension. UConn arrested 25 people and said demonstrators violated school policy by erecting tents and using amplified sound during their protest.
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A Connecticut program that helps new parents transition to life with a newborn is expanding. The Family Bridge program offers new parents three free visits from a registered nurse, who can provide helpful tips to new parents.
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The number of young people with at least two mental health diagnoses surged nearly 50% from 2018 to 2022 nationally, but in CT it increased by 24%.
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On the second day of a student encampment on the University of Vermont campus, more than a hundred students and community members gathered to protest against the school’s upcoming commencement speaker, who vetoed U.N. resolutions calling for a Gaza ceasefire. The cancellation is one of five demands made by the group Students for Justice in Palestine.
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Legislators in the Massachusetts House passed a bill, among hundreds attached in amendments to the budget, aimed at disclosing the use of artificial intelligence in political messages.
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Forty tents set up on-campus Monday by University of Massachusetts Amherst students protesting the war in Gaza and the school's financial ties to Israeli companies have been taken down. Their protest continues.
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Under current law, only initial screenings were required to be covered by insurance. But starting in 2026, additional rounds of imaging will be covered.
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Similar protests have been held at college campuses across the country. Locally, protests have taken place at UConn and Yale University. Elsewhere, protests have happened on campuses from Massachusetts to Texas to California.