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Manizha Naziry is one of several resettled Afghan refugees who is now learning to sew as part of a program run by several volunteers.

Portsmouth-based Iron Mountain secured a $142 million contact with the U.S. Treasury less than three months after Elon Musk targeted the company’s operations as antiquated.

Northampton Attorney Jeffrey Trapani and Westfield District Court Judge Charles Groce each received unanimous votes from the Governor's Council Wednesday. They were nominated late last month by Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey.

The local immigrant farmworker organization Migrant Justice said that the federal government sent 28-year-old Luis Enrique Gomez-Aguilar to Mexico on Monday, and then sent 32-year-old Urillas Sargento and 22-year-old Dani Alvarez-Perez there today.

Tunnel construction began in 2016. The project was initially expected to come online in 2023 at a cost of $279 million. Costs have grown to $335 million and the tunnel is not anticipated to be operational until fall 2026.

Commercial fishing interests sued the federal agencies involved in approving the wind farm, which is under construction 15 miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.

A federal judge last week ordered Mohsen Mahdawi to be released from prison while his immigration case is pending. In his first interview with Vermont media since his release, Mahdawi spoke about his time in prison, what it’s been like since his release and his plans for the future.

A state report recommending greater protections for homeschooled children is facing pushback from advocates and state Republican leaders.

Bajo el nuevo acuerdo con la administración de Trump, los oficiales de la policía estatal están entrenando para aplicar leyes federales de migración, incluyendo arrestar a personas indocumentadas sin órdenes judiciales. Algunos activistas dicen que las políticas podrían afectar a comunidades minoritarias.

At least 27 percent of staff who worked at NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center when Trump took office are no longer with the agency. The Woods Hole lab is at the center of the regional fisheries operations.