New England

An atmospheric river and developing bomb cyclone brought heavy rain and fierce winds to many areas Wednesday, as well as the possibility of flooding. The wet weather comes after New England's ski resorts experienced a stretch of early snow that attracted skiers.

Four of the 18 people killed in the recent shooting in Lewiston were members of New England's close-knit Deaf community.

Bryan MacFarlane, 40, had worked for years as a trucker — a career laden with obstacles for deaf people — and had only recently moved back to Maine at the urging of family.

"Recognized" is a special series from Brave Little State about Abenaki peoples and the ongoing dispute about who belongs to their communities.

Darryl Leroux is a French-Canadian scholar who studies white settler identities. He published a paper last month in the American Indian Culture and Research Journal focusing on claims to indigeneity in Vermont and New Hampshire.

Berkshire Medical Center en Pittsfield dice que ha visto un reciente aumento de casos de enfermedades respiratorias en su sala de emergencias.

Rutland-based Casella Waste Systems plans to buy trash collection, recycling, and transfer operations from one of its largest competitors for $525 million.

The Conway zoning board decided that the painting on the front of the bakery was not so much art as advertising, and too large. The bakery owner filed a federal lawsuit.

This study is bad news for communities that rely on subsistence fishing and recreational fisherman who cook up what they catch. The freshwater fish had average PFAS levels that are nearly 280 times what’s typically for store-bought fish.

At least eight religious groups in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, from different faiths wrote more than 1,200 thank-you notes to public school employees thanking them for their work with students since the start of the pandemic.