NEW ENGLAND NEWS COLLABORATIVE

Connecticut's primary is today. Here's what you need to know.

Connecticut leaders and advocates are applauding legislation the Senate passed Sunday tackling climate change, high prescription drug prices and inflation.

Vermont's primary election is Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Keep tabs on Vermont Public's primary reporting and results by bookmarking this page.

Affectionately nicknamed the Bug Patrol, the aerial survey team goes up in a tiny airplane every summer to record damage in New Hampshire's forests.

Baker signed a new bond bill last week, but excluded a five-year prohibition on building prisons and jails, which the Legislature had signed off on.

On Friday, a Texas jury ordered Infowars host Alex Jones to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of Jesse Lewis for all of the times he said the Sandy Hook school shooting didn’t happen. Jones has since apologized and admitted the shooting was "100% real," but one survivor says she has mixed feelings after learning the outcome.

A judge has ordered a Texas attorney representing Infowars host Alex Jones for a hearing in a Connecticut court. Jones was sued for defamation in Texas and Connecticut by families of victims killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. An attorney for one family suggested in court this week that Jones’ attorneys shared confidential psychiatric records and depositions of the nine named plaintiffs in a Connecticut lawsuit against Jones — records an attorney for the plaintiffs in Texas say Andino Reynal shouldn’t have.

People who inject drugs have far higher rates of the Hep C virus than the general population.

“He didn’t ride a wave. He created the wave,” Bernard Francis Pettingill, Jr. told jurors in Austin. “He is a very successful guy.”

The goal of the program is help new arrivals learn to get around independently.