The New England News Collaborative is telling stories of our connected and rapidly changing region.
The NENC is a 9-station consortium of public media newsrooms reporting stories that are shared and broadcast across New England. Our multimedia coverage delves into climate change and clean energy; racial inequality and immigration; and the impacts of the pandemic on people, businesses and schools in the region.
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The decommissioning timeline now stretches out to 2035. At the present rate of evaporation of radioactive water from Pilgrim, the water and its contaminants could be dispersed into the air before that date ever comes. -
Democratic lawmakers say the state needs clear regulations so it can implement clean transportation goals. But Republican leaders say they're concerned about the affordability of electric vehicles and want more input from electric utilities and the public on building out EV charging stations.
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The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is repatriating the remains of two Native people, believed to be an adult and an adolescent, to the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians.
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Instead, the commission will issue a 37-page report that will lay out a potential model for legalization. But it won’t recommend that it become law.
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State officials see the work as a way to get more Maine feedback into the hands of federal regulators, who are looking for ways to further reduce the risk of entanglement and injury to critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.
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A proposal calls for Connecticut to adopt updated vehicle emissions standards that would bring the state in line with California’s stricter standards.
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The bike-sharing program didn't operate this past year because Bewegen, the Canadian company that ran it, entered bankruptcy proceedings.
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An influx of newcomers to recreational and retirement communities drove the population increase in non-urban counties.
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A group of U.S. senators including Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal are urging pharmaceutical companies to boost the supply.
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Tahseen Ali Ahmad and two other men of Palestinian descent — all college students who are studying in the U.S. — were shot in Burlington, Vermont. Police said they arrested a man in connection with the shooting.
