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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A federal bankruptcy judge in Bridgeport has sent the Connecticut lawsuit against InfoWars host Alex Jones back to a local Superior Court. -
Connecticut is close to meeting its goal for distributing naloxone, the generic name for Narcan, an emergency drug used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
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"It’s only a matter of time before you do have spillover into other populations," an infectious disease specialist said.
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Ongoing dry weather is forcing farmers to haul in water and re-assess fall harvests.
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The one-person play is the creation of actor Daniel Franzese ("Mean Girls")
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The UConn Center on Aging will investigate which age-related changes in the immune system reduce people’s responses to the flu vaccine, and which next-generation flu vaccines best boost immune responses.
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The new Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) requirements will apply to students graduating in the class of 2026 to 2029.
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CannaHealth filed a lawsuit last week against the state Department of Consumer Protection and its Social Equity Council that oversees the rollout of Connecticut's legalized adult-use recreational cannabis industry.
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The new Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System(MCAS) requirements will apply to students graduating in the class of 2026 to 2029.
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A Connecticut judge is still trying to get to the bottom of how confidential records of nine parties in a Connecticut lawsuit filed against Infowars host Alex Jones ended up in the possession of an attorney defending Jones in Texas. According to a filing in the Connecticut case, a third party was involved in transmitting the information in a hard drive believed to contain confidential depositions and psychiatric records of the Connecticut plaintiffs from Jones' attorney in Connecticut.
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Free lunch was already available to the Gateway Regional School District elementary schools due to the low-income student population.
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New federal recommendations for at-home Covid testing come from a study at UMass Chan Medical SchoolA study out of UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, finds multiple antigen tests may be necessary before detecting COVID-19.
