The New England News Collaborative is telling stories of our connected and rapidly changing region.
The 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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Principals' association and school board reject Trump administration demands on transgender athletesBoth SAD 51 and the Maine Principals' Association say they will continue to follow Maine's nondiscrimination law. But Attorney General Pam Bondi has already warned that Maine could face lawsuits unless it complied with Trump administration directives. -
Toussaint St. Negritude is a poet, teacher and musician who has chosen his own path and his own name. In this episode, Toussaint speaks about fierceness as a survival tool for Black queer men, like him, who were out and gay in the 1970s. -
23andMe this week entered the federal bankruptcy process and is looking for a buyer, which has raised questions about data privacy for those who participated in the company's genetic analysis. -
Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas calls the executive order 鈥渦nlawful.鈥� -
The federal agency allocated more than $353 million for school districts and other organizations in Connecticut through its grant programs, according to state education officials. -
Last October, a secretive high-level meeting was held to review the environmental impacts of a controversial proposal for a machine gun range on Joint Base Cape Cod. Now, the release of a 65-page meeting transcript offers a first glimpse into what happened behind closed doors. -
Kimberly Sullivan is accused of torturing her stepson and imprisoning him in her Waterbury home for more than two decades. -
A new study out of the University of Vermont quantifies just how much migrating female whales do to sustain ocean ecosystems. The answer is: a lot. -
State Representatives highlight legislation that would help close CT wage gap. -
State House Republicans pushed through a key policy goal of Gov. Kelly Ayotte: reforming a 2018 bail law that critics say resulted in too many defendants released pretrial.
