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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Nicole Ogrysko/Maine PublicThe ruling follows a lawsuit from Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey and a coalition of other states. -
Courtesy PhotoA Nashua woman won a second free speech lawsuit this year. An appeals court ruled the city of Nashua violated her First Amendment rights by refusing to fly politically divisive flags on the city’s Citizen Flag Pole. -
Lexi KlupchakThe NH Attorney General released the names of three officers who shot 24-year-old Nickenley Turenne earlier this month following an encounter in Manchester. -
Paul C. Kelly Campos / Ocean State MediaThe school hired former Providence police chief Hugh Clements Jr. to take over on an interim basis
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Salamanders, pickleball, poignant conversations: The local stories that will stick with us from 2025NHPR's news and podcast teams reflect on the reporting memories they'll remember most from the past year. -
Cardiologists say you should warm up first, pace yourself, and avoid overdoing it when clearing out a path in the snow. -
CAI reporter Jennette Barnes interviews Petros Koutrakis, professor of environmental sciences at Harvard, on new research about cancer risk near nuclear power plants. -
In response to the drought, the company reduced withdrawals between August and October. But overall, extractions increased in Fryeburg and Denmark this year compared to the past two. -
A previously unreported and recently completed audit found that Gateway Community Services overbilled MaineCare by more than $1 million. The state says such suspensions are imposed when there's suspected fraud. -
Last month President Trump issued an executive order removing tariffs on imported cocoa and coffee. But chocolate prices had already been rising in recent years due to weak cocoa crop yields linked to weather, and Maine chocolate makers say they are still experiencing high costs of production. -
PPSNE president Amanda Skinner said the affiliate was able to lean on reserves as federal reimbursements for Medicaid patients getting preventative care were halted, but it's not a solution long-term. -
Connecticut is launching new fishing regulations to protect the declining wild brook trout population -
Maine's small Christmas Tree growers say their sales are up this season, despite an exceptionally wet spring, a severe drought, and tariffs that have made it a tough year for many farmers. -
The first day of inter was Sunday December 21, the time of year in the Northern hemisphere when the Earth's axis is tilts most strongly away from the sun.
