The New England News Collaborative is a consortium of public media newsrooms in the region. 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.
The mission of the NENC is to produce impactful multimedia journalism that informs and empowers audiences to become change agents in our communities.
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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.
