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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Keith Shannon/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast RegionA group of bat advocates, including scientists at UNH, NH Fish and Game and volunteers have been working together to monitor the health of the state’s bats. -
Kevin Miller/Maine PublicThe logger and former Maine Senate president turned out supporters across the state over the weekend, especially among Maine's organized labor community and former supporters of Graham Platner. -
Carrie HealyVermont author Tim Weed grounds a fantastical story with smuggled Mesoamerican treasure and a mysterious missing father in the familiar hills of his home state in his new novel, "The Gatepost." -
Rebecca Conley/Maine Public fileThe logger and former Maine Senate president appeared to have dominated Saturday's delegate-selection meetings in half of Maine's counties. His top rivals for the nomination had withdrawn from the race or suspended their campaigns by Sunday evening.
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Rallygoers in Portland on Saturday paid tribute to 25-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, and called for agents to leave the state. -
An estimated 5,600 of Connecticut's 31,000 early care and education workers don't have health insurance, according to a recent study by Access Health CT. -
The nearly eight-acre property would have three housing units for people in need of shelter, a building for wellness programming, a food pantry, a garden, and more. The nonprofit group behind the project is led by Aquinnah Wampanoag women. -
The Easthampton City Council passed a resolution on Wednesday calling for Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell and the Northwestern district attorney to investigate and charge federal ICE agents when they violate state law. -
Martha Karolina Rojas Alvarez addressed reporters in Biddeford Thursday, speaking publicly for the first time since the shooting. -
A regional seafood industry collaborative has been awarded a $15 million grant from the National Science Foundation. -
Sara Tirrell, the mother of one of the teenagers who dropped her legal challenge against the state, spoke with NHPR about the decision and what the last two years have been like for her family. -
The thick wildfire smoke drifting down from Canada will stick around into the weekend, according to experts in Connecticut. -
Think back to your middle school science class where you might have learned that white light is actually made up of all the colors you see in a rainbow. -
Local fishing nets, once bound for recycling, are now saving lives in Ukraine. The spent nets are being repurposed to protect soldiers from Russian drone attacks.
