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Connecticut Public
The Active Tick Surveillance Program began in 2019 to better understand where ticks are, the dangers they pose to people and how invasive tick populations are spreading.
Tyler Russell
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Connecticut Public
Laura Nakasaka
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Vermont Public
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Three communities in Massachusetts have a lot to lose if the Trump administration succeeds in halting all offshore wind.
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In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS. They say he can't. PBS chief Paula Kerger calls it "blatantly unlawful". -
The pro-worker marches come as Connecticut nursing home union members are set to strike in mid-May. -
The study, released Thursday, shows that while Vermont law enforcement agencies are doing fewer traffic stops since the COVID pandemic, there are continuing disparities in how Black and Hispanic drivers are policed. -
Volunteers have always been part of IRIS’s model, but in the face of downsizing due to shifting federal policies, they’re more critical than ever. -
Some farms are facing hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost income. -
That’s as the state recognition law faces increasingly vocal criticism from the only two federally recognized Western Abenaki Nations, which say Vermont has legitimized people who haven’t adequately demonstrated their Abenaki heritage. -
Huddled around a small conference table in Greater Boston, volunteers form an ad hoc assembly line to slip hundreds of pills into padded envelopes. It's not an illegal drug operation, at least not here in Massachusetts. But, their work to provide abortion medications could risk criminal or civil charges in states where abortion is banned. -
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has started a process to schedule drilling for offshore fossil fuel.
Stories from NENC journalists on how climate change is affecting New England's ecosystems.
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