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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Kate Dario/NHPRAt a special meeting Wednesday, the planning board took initial steps to create a moratorium on building data centers, following a controversial proposal last week. -
Dan Tuohy/NHPRThe state Attorney General — a gun right's supporter — raised concerns about possible unintended consequences from the legislation. -
Hampshire College/hampshirecollege.galleryHampshire College officials announced there were insufficient financial resources to open for a final fall term. In April, the college announced it would permanently close because of overwhelming debt. -
Ryan Caron King/Connecticut Public"It's an incredible honor," the church's rector said.
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The groups say the goal is provide centralized, reliable information. -
A lawsuit by national medical groups has forced the Trump administration to revert to previous vaccination guidelines, but the strained relationship between pediatricians and the new CDC continues in western Massachusetts and beyond. -
Scientists with the Nature Conservancy and Forest Service have been raising American elms that are bred to be resistant to Dutch elm disease at two sites in Vermont. Now, they’re injecting them with the fungus to see what happens. -
The offshore wind developer is suing GE for trying to leave the project before the turbines are operating at full capacity. -
The short river in York County is one of the most heavily-dammed waterways in Maine that doesn't have any fish passage. -
As seals return to the waters off the Cape and Islands, white sharks aren’t far behind. And, it turns out, they aren’t the only seal-hunting sharks in our waters. -
Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll, speaking at the summit for the Health Equity Compact in Springfield on June 2, 2026,, said the Trump Administration's cuts in health care are "mean and dumb." She said Massachusetts leaders will do their best to mitigate the harms. -
Gov. Phil Scott has signed a bill that allows the Windham County Sheriff’s Department to set up a regional police department overseen by towns that opt into the pilot program. -
Nearly half of New Hampshire residents say their household finances are worse off than a year ago. -
A segment of the Lincoln Woods hiking trail from the Kancamagus Highway to the junction of the Osseo Trail will be closed from June 15 to November to repair and stabilize the riverbank nearby, according to the White Mountain National Forest Service.
