Courtesy of Barnstable County
Barnstable County's new emergency management director knows what the county has to do to prepare for a major disaster.
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Giant bluefins which weigh from 300 pounds to over 1,000 pounds—have arrived on their summer feeding grounds on Stellwagen Bank and in Cape Cod Bay. They are mainly targets of commercial fishermen. -
The founders left three groups out of the Declaration of Independence: Black Americans, Indigenous peoples, and women. This is how they responded. -
Cycling has changed from the days of ten-speeds and beach cruisers with the explosion of e-bikes, and other motorized two-wheeled vehicles. -
The Bourne and Sagamore projects are the first since the Big Dig to get the highest environmental federal approval. -
A centuries-old Portuguese ritual rich with history, pageantry, and, most definitely, food.
The Point
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Manjith Kainickara/FlikrMark Faherty, science coordinator at Mass Audubon Cape Cod, joins host Amy Vince to talk birds and the natural world. -
Jennette Barnes/CAIA review of the week's local headlines with our region's leading journalists. -
Coutesy Small Tue ThingsA project that records stories about the small, true things in the lives of students. -
Michael Patterson/WikicommonsWe discuss the weather and climate patterns contributing to the lack of rainfall and what a prolonged drought means for wildfire risk.
NPR Stories
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Daniel HertzbergThe visa process for visiting artists has always been complicated and expensive. Under the current administration, it's gotten significantly worse. -
Brandon Bell/Getty ImagesAnnual inflation hit 3.5% in June, down from May's more than three-year high — but the resumption of the conflict with Iran threaten to push up inflation as energy costs once again spike.
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Ebony Dowell runs into her mother. Produced by Mae Nagusky and Atlantic Public Media. -
Hundreds of people turned out for a vigil in Biddeford and rally in Portland Monday night to call for justice for a 26-year-old Colombian man fatally shot by federal immigration agents who were looking for someone else. -
A troubling pattern of federal agents fatally shooting civilians is developing, with deaths in Maine, Texas and Tennessee. The family of a man fatally shot by agents told NPR they want answers.
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