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The measure would direct $4 million in unclaimed funds to conservation. -
The bill would require manufacturers to collect and dispose of alkaline and lithium-ion batteries across the state. -
The Guard’s deployment, now surpassing 100 days, is the first combat mission of its kind in a decade. And families don’t know when their service members will return home. -
Barbara Lopez is a founder of Make the Road Connecticut, an organization that fights for the rights of immigrant, Latino, and working-class communities. She looks back on her years of leadership and reflects on the lessons learned that will help her continue to grow as a leader. -
What does the livelihood of the New England fishing industry have to do with the war in Iran? It turns out, quite a lot. -
The Trump administration does not want children to have access to gender-affirming care — and is using federal policies and financial threats to make that happen. Massachusetts is among the states assuring families the care will be protected. But those promises are hard to keep when hospitals, including Baystate Health in western Massachusetts, stop providing the treatment on their own. -
In a 39-0 vote Massachusetts Senate passed a wide-ranging farm bill Wednesday. One aspect of the bill codifies the health incentives program for the first time. -
UConn Hartford has met the threshold to be named a Hispanic-Serving Institution, but the campus will not be getting any federal benefits for the designation under the Trump Administration. -
The plan is called 'Compass Rail', and residents will see the earliest project materialize around 2030, with the so-called Inland Route — or what officials are calling the first phase of West -East Rail — connecting Springfield to Worcester and Boston. -
The class-action lawsuits challenges President Donald Trump's executive order ending automatic birthright citizenship. -
It’s the latest shoe-drop in a years-long debate over how the rapidly growing industry should be regulated and how much jurisdiction towns should have over new developments in what the state considers public waters. -
Dozens of protesters accused state and local police of using excessive force and helping federal immigration agents facilitate the detention of three people from a house in South Burlington last month.
