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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Molly Ingram/WSHUThere are now four major candidates in the race to be Connecticut’s next governor. Former New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart, a 38-year-old Republican, is the latest to throw her hat in the ring. -
Annmarie Timmins/NHPRSpecial education protections under IDEA remain uncertain after mass layoffs by the Trump administration at the U.S. Department of Education, despite staff reinstatement through January.
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Patrick Goulet used employee discounts — his and his co-workers’ — to purchase several hundred guns that he later resold on social media platforms without a license, according to prosecutors. -
An analysis from Climate Centrals finds Presque Isle has some of the fastest warming winters in the U.S. -
Union fire fighters in Amherst, Massachusetts, are calling on town management to fully staff the department, after last week's blaze that destroyed an apartment building, displacing 232 people. -
After briefly returning to the bench following her criminal conviction in October, Justice Hantz Marconi, who will reach the mandatory retirement age in three months, informed colleagues Friday she will focus on administrative tasks. -
The Canadian province hopes to attract displaced investment to plans for a massive offshore generation and transmission project. -
In his social media launch video, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont pitched himself as an experienced leader focused on education, fiscal responsibility and health care. -
The bill gives the Lamont administration authority to resource affected programs such as home heating and nutrition assistance along with housing and health care. -
Nearly three thousand New Hampshire fourth and fifth graders entered this Secretary of State's sticker contest. -
The measure prohibits most civil immigration arrests on courthouse grounds without a signed judicial warrant, and bars law enforcement officers from wearing face coverings in court. -
Osmanu says there are at least 900 DSA members in Connecticut. He says they’re small in number, but that’s not stopping them from celebrating their electoral victories. They picked up an extra councilman-at-large seat in Hamden, and won reelection in New London and New Britain as four DSA members won council seats within their municipalities.
