The latest New England stories on topics like climate change and the environment, the economy, health, racial equity, culture and politics — as reported by newsrooms of the New England News Collaborative, a 9-station consortium of the region's top public media organizations.
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Two Champlain Valley Union High School students from Nicaragua are preparing to leave the United States after the Department of Homeland Security terminated the immigration program that had allowed them to reside in Vermont legally, according to school officials.
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Faculty and campus community members want President Christina Paxson to stand behind her previous statements on academic freedom and refuse to assist immigration officials who lack warrants or subpoenas.
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Arjelis Heredia and Children’s Community School won a $10,000 prize for work educating students from low-income households.
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The inpatient psychiatric unit is open to patients ages 12 to 17. The hospital also expanded its beds for adults.
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The Avelo Airlines boycott at Tweed New Haven Airport is being sponsored by several groups, including º£½Ç»»ÆÞ Climate Crisis Mobilization and CT Shoreline Indivisible.
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Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald sent a note to all judicial branch staff on Wednesday, warning of painful cuts if the state were to adopt the House’s proposed budget.
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In an executive order signed Tuesday, President Trump took aim at Vermont and other state climate laws he says are impeding his federal agenda to promote domestic fossil fuel production.
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Western Massachusetts travel and tourism is expected to feel the impact of sweeping federal tariffs, if and when they're reinstated. After President Trump insisted he would hold the line with the tariffs, many big hikes were paused Wednesday afternoon for 90 days.
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º£½Ç»»ÆÞ Democratic legislators are calling for bipartisan support in Hartford to condemn the Trump administration’s policies. They gathered at the state Capitol in Hartford to speak out against what State Sen. Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox says is a threat to the functioning of an independent judiciary system.
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Granite State Landfill LLC is suing the state’s Department of Environmental Services over their decision to deny a permit. Regulators said the permit application was incomplete for more than a year.