The latest New England stories on topics like climate change and the environment, the economy, health, racial equity, culture and politics — as reported by newsrooms of the New England News Collaborative, a 9-station consortium of the region's top public media organizations.
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“This is about refusing to normalize what's happening,” said one organizer of the protest at Tweed-New Haven airport, where people have been calling on Avelo Airlines to stop working with ICE. -
Documents obtained by the Washington Post show a plan to convert an industrial warehouse in Merrimack, New Hampshire, into a site to hold 500 to 1500 immigrant detainees. The town told NHPR it had no knowledge of such a plan. -
Researchers at the University of Vermont have named a new species of Christmas fern after Hilda White, who has been a volunteer at the school’s herbarium for nearly 30 years. -
The ruling follows a lawsuit from Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey and a coalition of other states. -
A Nashua woman won a second free speech lawsuit this year. An appeals court ruled the city of Nashua violated her First Amendment rights by refusing to fly politically divisive flags on the city’s Citizen Flag Pole. -
The NH Attorney General released the names of three officers who shot 24-year-old Nickenley Turenne earlier this month following an encounter in Manchester. -
The school hired former Providence police chief Hugh Clements Jr. to take over on an interim basis -
Salamanders, pickleball, poignant conversations: The local stories that will stick with us from 2025NHPR's news and podcast teams reflect on the reporting memories they'll remember most from the past year. -
Cardiologists say you should warm up first, pace yourself, and avoid overdoing it when clearing out a path in the snow. -
CAI reporter Jennette Barnes interviews Petros Koutrakis, professor of environmental sciences at Harvard, on new research about cancer risk near nuclear power plants.
