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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"What they worry about," said Barnstable County Emergency Preparedness director Chip Reilly on the Bourne and Sagamore bridges, "is a tractor trailer truck going sideways and flipping over and then tying up the bridge. And then where do we stand?" -
President Joe Biden stepped aside as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate this week and has endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, for the job. The announcement sparked a barrage of memes and attention from major pop culture figures like Charli XCX tweeting “Kamala is Brat.” -
The planthopping pest is a known threat to crops, especially grapes. But in Connecticut so far, the damage appears to be minimal, state officials said. -
GE Vernova, the company that built the blade that failed on a Vineyard Wind turbine south of the islands, says it will re-examine every blade it has built for offshore wind. -
Rescue teams from the New England Aquarium, the Center for Coastal Studies, and the Barnstable harbormaster’s office came together to disentangle a six-foot-long, 400-pound leatherback. -
The New England Heat Pump Accelerator aims to "permanently shift the market from fossil fuel equipment to heat pumps." -
The director of marine mammal conservation at the Seacoast Science Center says footage of the incident doesn't suggest wrongdoing on the part of the boaters. -
Organizers of a Pittsfield fundraiser event for Kamala Harris confirmed Tuesday she will attend. Before she became a presidential candidate, Harris was slated to be the top billing at the Saturday event. -
Robert Card told his providers that he had a "hit list," although it was the hospital's determination at the time of discharge that "he did not demonstrate a risk of harm to self or others." -
Finding and getting medical care can be a challenge, especially for older people in rural areas. To help fill in these gaps, over a dozen towns in Vermont and New Hampshire have something called a community nurse. Some towns think this saves money by limiting unnecessary 911 calls and hospital trips.
