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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Screenshot/Pod Save AmericaPlatner says he didn't know about the Nazi affiliation when he got the tattoo as an 18-year-old rifleman in the Marines. -
Tyler Russell/Connecticut PublicConnecticut State Rep. Vincent Candelora speaks about the need to “depoliticize the immigration issue.” -
Center for Coastal Studies Right Whale Ecology Program/New England AquariumThe estimated population of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales grew by about two percent last year to 384, an increase of about eight individuals. That’s according to new data from the New England Aquarium and North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium. -
Howard Weiss-Tisman/Vermont PublicTown clerks and select boards say it is getting harder to run meetings and conduct town business as the vitriolic tone of political polarization continues to ramp up.
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Active duty students at several N.H. schools can find partial or full tuition coverage amid the ongoing shutdown. -
Connecticut Senate GOP Leader Stephen Harding calls Anwar’s actions “disgusting” and “hateful.” -
The Afterschool Alliance, a national nonprofit focused on increasing access to afterschool programs, found that 4 in 5 Maine children want to be in afterschool program, but can't find available spots. -
State officials want to clone Jonah Richard, an Orange County native who’s building housing at a clip in the town where his family has lived for generations. -
Protestors across Western Massachusetts joined others across the state and the nation in "No Kings" rallies denouncing everything from ICE raids to cuts in food assistance benefits. -
The nationwide series of protests included at least 40 demonstrations in Maine. Participants talked about what they see as Trump's unlawful expansions of executive powers and cuts to essential services. -
The crowd was nearly double the size of the previous No Kings rally in Hartford in June. -
Demonstrators gathered in communities across New Hampshire on Saturday in protest of several Trump administration policies. The rallies were part of the nationwide No Kings movement. -
Dartmouth was one of nine colleges and universities asked to sign the White House’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” The compact offered schools preferential access to federal funding in exchange for adopting several Trump administration policies. -
Here’s the thing, Connecticut: The NHL may be long gone, but we’ve got three pro hockey teams here right now, today. Danbury’s got the Hat Tricks. And we’ve got two affiliated minor league teams, the Bridgeport Islanders and the Rangers farm team, the Hartford Wolf Pack.
