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Mansfield resident Constance Rock reacts after placing her ballot in a voting machine at the Mansfield Community Center during the April 09, 2022, statewide primary.

What to watch this primary day in Connecticut

Patrick Skahill

Connecticut's primary is today. Here's what you need to know.

Democratic Lawmakers Hold Media Availability To Mark June As 'Gun Violence Prevention Month'

Connecticut leaders tout Senate's passage of Inflation Reduction Act

Michayla Savitt

Connecticut leaders and advocates are applauding legislation the Senate passed Sunday tackling climate change, high prescription drug prices and inflation.

A metal box with a sign reading "insert ballot here," with tiger lilies in the background.

Local News

Liveblog for Vermont's 2022 primary election

Vermont Public Staff

Vermont's primary election is Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Keep tabs on Vermont Public's primary reporting and results by bookmarking this page.

A forester named Kyle Lombard looks out the window of a small airplane. He is wearing a blue collared shirt and heavy light green headphones with a mouthpiece. Under the airplane, there's a blanket of forest, a sparkly blue lake, and a mountain in the distance. Lombard is holding a digital tablet, and the reflection of the tablet and his hand are visible in the window.

Meet the foresters keeping an eye on N.H.'s trees … from the sky

Mara Hoplamazian

Affectionately nicknamed the Bug Patrol, the aerial survey team goes up in a tiny airplane every summer to record damage in New Hampshire's forests.

The Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk is the largest medium security level facility in Massachusetts.

Governor Baker's block of prison moratorium 'a slap in the face,' says anti-incarceration group

Alden Bourne

Baker signed a new bond bill last week, but excluded a five-year prohibition on building prisons and jails, which the Legislature had signed off on.

Climate activists gather in the shade outside the New Hampshire State House.

Local News

Climate activists call on N.H. officials to invest in renewable energy, divest from fossil fuels

Laura Bratton

At a rally on Thursday, climate activists demanded that state officials expand New Hampshire’s renewable energy resources. They criticized Governor Chris Sununu for accepting donations from fossil fuel companies.

One of the first major tests of the state’s privacy amendment comes as part of a domestic violence case in Manchester where the defense team requested access to the alleged victim’s mental health and crisis center counseling records.

NPR News

How recent court cases are testing the limits of N.H.'s constitutional right to privacy

Alli Fam

One potential test of the state’s privacy amendment comes as part of a domestic violence case where the defense team requested access to the alleged victim’s mental health counseling records.

Words ‘still live on’ for this Sandy Hook survivor after $49.3 million total Alex Jones verdict

Frankie Graziano

On Friday, a Texas jury ordered Infowars host Alex Jones to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of Jesse Lewis for all of the times he said the Sandy Hook school shooting didn’t happen. Jones has since apologized and admitted the shooting was "100% real," but one survivor says she has mixed feelings after learning the outcome.

Judge orders Alex Jones’ Texas attorney to come to Connecticut to answer questions in defamation case

Frankie Graziano

A judge has ordered a Texas attorney representing Infowars host Alex Jones for a hearing in a Connecticut court. Jones was sued for defamation in Texas and Connecticut by families of victims killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. An attorney for one family suggested in court this week that Jones’ attorneys shared confidential psychiatric records and depositions of the nine named plaintiffs in a Connecticut lawsuit against Jones — records an attorney for the plaintiffs in Texas say Andino Reynal shouldn’t have.

Researchers are exploring how to reduce Hepatitis C in rural areas of the Connecticut River Valley

Alli Fam

People who inject drugs have far higher rates of the Hep C virus than the general population.