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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The bill passed unanimously in both the state House and Senate.
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New research from regional grid operator ISO New England shows the electrification of the transportation and heating sector will contribute to more electricity usage.
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The measure was prompted by a shooting at New Hampshire Hospital last November. It found bipartisan support in the House, but was tabled along party lines in the Senate.
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The Republican measure would require new registrants to show a passport, birth certificate or naturalization papers instead of signing an affidavit.
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Moore, 75, announced her decision to not run for reelection on the final day of the 2024 state legislative session.
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Connecticut has roughly 90,000 registered nurses, but only a little over 50% are actually working in the nursing profession.
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UMass student gov votes 'no confidence' in Reyes, as McGovern says protest arrests 'very concerning'Members of the Student Government Association at the University of Massachusetts Amherst voted "with an overwhelming majority" Wednesday evening to express their "no confidence" in Chancellor Javier Reyes.
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Wethersfield EMS struggles highlight how small CT towns navigate complex world of ambulance responseAcross Connecticut, it's the state — not towns — that has ultimate authority over EMS response. For some local leaders, that's a problem.
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Republican debate and a Democratic choice not to bring an omnibus climate change bill up for debate sooner in the Senate doomed significant climate legislation in 2024.
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Connecticut’s General Assembly came to a close on Wednesday. Legislators advanced a variety of measures, but others, like efforts to address climate change, died.
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Organizers with the University of Vermont group Students for Justice in Palestine announced Wednesday they're removing their tents to "pivot our energy."
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Students at Connecticut College occupied a building on the New London school's campus for days in 2023, demonstrating against the school administration. But student protesters this year have remained relatively quiet as some other schools carried out more boisterous pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
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New maps show that seven neighborhoods will be particularly vulnerable to flooding during three broad scenarios — daily high tides, the occasional astronomical, or "king" tide, and major storms — within the next 25 to 75 years.
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Lawmakers in the Vermont Senate voted Tuesday to advance one of the most significant and controversial climate bills of the session.