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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Hundreds of people gathered for the 53rd annual Dartmouth Powwow to celebrate Native culture with songs, dance, and drumming. -
The Prospector Theater in Ridgefield, which has a staff mostly made up of people with disabilities, is pushing back against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for comments he made regarding people with autism. -
Boston Globe education data reporter Christopher Huffaker recently surveyed dozens of school superintendents and as he tells NEPM, they see a long road to recovery for students. -
“Beyond all he did for this state and his country, he was an extraordinarily honorable, decent, kind person,” said Tom Rath, a longtime friend. “And I will miss him.” -
Recent legal challenges to Vermont's climate superfund law could go all the way to the Supreme Court — a process legal scholars say could take five years to a decade. -
Dozens of organizations and nearly 200 corps members have been affected statewide. -
Juan Francisco Méndez was detained last month after ICE agents broke into his car with an axe. -
The Marine Mammal Commission was created more than 50 years ago to ensure the Marine Mammal Protection Act is followed, and to provide independent, science-based oversight of federal activities that affect whales, dolphins, seals, and more. -
The Vermont Immigration Legal Defense Fund aims to raise $1 million for the Vermont Asylum Assistance Project, a Burlington-based nonprofit that has represented more than 300 people in immigration proceedings over the past year. -
Lawyers in multiple states say their clients have been arrested in Maine in recent months despite having valid work permits, no criminal record, and pending claims for permanent status.
