New England News

State officials have declined to answer lawmakers’ questions about an extended lockdown at the Sununu Youth Services Center, following reports of injuries to youth and staff. They want to hear from the center’s director, Joshua Nye, who took over in January.

The Environmental Protection Agency has long provided funding for communities to redevelop contaminated land. Those remediated sites could be a housing solution, federal officials said.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has tapped Mark Sanborn to be the next regional administrator for New England. Sanborn will be in charge of advancing the Trump administration’s environmental agenda across New England states and federally recognized Tribal Nations.

A conversation with one descendant of a man who was enslaved in Portsmouth, and a descendant from the family that enslaved him.

A new memoir by father and son explores how skiing, often in New England, gave them the push to leave behind behavioral schools and physical restraints.

Ten evacuees have been placed in the English classes so far.

Workers earning the minimum wage in four of the six New England states will see a bit more in their paychecks in 2021. But the gap continues to widen...

On Oct. 1, it will be illegal in Vermont to possess bump stocks — a device that attaches to a semi-automatic weapon to speed up the rate it fires. And...

Quebec continues to be inundated with asylum-seekers fleeing the U.S. to reach Canada. In order to house the influx of people, the government has opened...

Students are about to return to their classrooms after a long summer break. One thing their teachers are all wondering: how much did they forget over...