Offshore wind developers have submitted detailed bids for new contracts in the first regional selection process involving Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
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You probably haven’t seen anything in the news about it, but I have reliable intel that a royal has quietly taken up residence on Cape Cod. In the Sagamore area, away from the gaze of paparazzi, a prince is spending some time along the canal and trying to blend in with the locals.
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The entire delegation from Cape Cod, the Islands, and Plymouth have called for an end to evaporation of water from Pilgrim until the state can evaluate it. Meanwhile, the state says Holtec provided inadequate information about potential air pollution from the nuclear power station.
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The sudden collapse early Tuesday brought attention back to hundreds of structurally deficient bridges
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The feds could eventually release rules limiting the use of treated sludge as fertilizer, meaning more towns will be trying to dispose of theirs. The team at the Massachusetts Alternative Septic System Test Center call this scenario, "Sludgement Day."
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People thought Luther Crowell was insane, but he wasn’t. He was the greatest inventor in Cape Cod history.
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This episode of The Pulse: exploring stories of long-buried secrets
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This week: The final "piece" of a bridge to replace the Sagamore is almost in place: it’s… $1 billion dollars, and the Cape’s delegation is leaning hard to get it from the feds. Also: eleven months have gone by, so when are we going to hear a decision from the EPA on a proposed machine gun range for Joint base Cape Cod?
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Producers say poor crop yields in the face of climate change in West Africa — where 70% of the cocoa supply is grown — is to blame. Chocolate makers are raising prices; others are shrinking candies.
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The new pressing is to celebrate the album's 50th anniversary and the Swedish quartet's 1974 Eurovision win. It will even include the album's title track in four different languages.
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Crypto-wunderkind Sam Bankman Fried, 32, is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday. He was found guilty of fraud after his company FTX swiftly collapsed in 2022 losing billions of dollars.
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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate Nicole Shanahan is demonstrating how populism and disinformation can be used to attract voters across the political spectrum.
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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Francesca Royster, author of Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions, about how Black artists have contributed to country music and the barriers they've faced.