We talk with Matt Mattus about eco-friendly gardening and answer questions about caring for plants in midwinter.

A review of this week's local headlines with the region's leading journalists.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cape Cod and the Islands matches volunteer mentors with kids who could use some extra support. But without enough volunteers, some kids get stuck on the waitlist.

An interview with Chris German, a marine geochemist who's recently also involved with astrobiology.

Bitternut hickory trees were one of the most important perennial staple food crops in the eastern U.S. for eight thousand years or more.

Maxwell declined to answer questions from House lawmakers on Monday, but indicated that if President Trump ended her sentence, she was willing to testify that neither he nor former President Clinton had done anything wrong in their connections with Epstein.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth visited General Dynamics-Bath Iron Works on Monday as part of his nationwide "Arsenal of Freedom" tour of domestic defense manufacturing facilities. However, Hegseth's speech in the City of Ships was thick on MAGA pride, and thin on details about the President's plans for a new, more advanced class of battleship.

The 41-year-old star said her torn ACL was not a factor in her crash. "While yesterday did not end the way I had hoped, and despite the intense physical pain it caused, I have no regrets," she wrote.