New England Public Radio News

01/29/2013
Leanna First-Arai

Researchers and industry professionals met at the University of Connecticut's Storrs campus today to discuss how counterfeit electronics pose silent threats to transportation, communication and nat

01/29/2013
Henry Epp

A group of Massachusetts lawyers will hold a demonstration at the state house Wednesday calling on legislators to pass increased funding for civil legal aid programs.

01/29/2013
Jeremy Goodwin

New construction work means motorists on one of the westernmost portions of the Mass Turnpike will start experiencing regular midday delays beginning Tuesday. 

01/28/2013
Henry Epp

Governor Deval Patrick's Massachusetts budget proposal released last week is expected to be hotly debated.

01/28/2013
Leanna First-Arai

Today's afternoon flurry is turning into snow and sleet  -- and could amount to about an inch of accumulation when it stops at around four in the morning.

01/28/2013
Kari Njiiri

Springfield Massachusetts officials have postponed making a decision about which of two casino resort proposals the city will enter into an agreement with.  The announcement was initially sche

01/25/2013
New England Pub...

The end of some print journalism outlets has commentator Robert Chipkin mourning what could have been.

01/25/2013
New England Pub...

Reactions are still coming in on Governor Patrick's ambitious 2014 Budget Proposal for Massachusetts, also how the most insured state in the nation still has free clinics for the uninsured, and com

01/24/2013
Leanna First-Arai

Three years after the historic Supreme Court decision known as "Citizens United" transformed the first amendment, Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern is introducing two constitutional ammendment

01/24/2013
Henry Epp

The New Leadership Charter School in Springfield announced this week it will close at the end of this academic year after the state's education commissioner indicated its charter license may not be

01/23/2013
Henry Epp

Massachusetts Treasurer Steve Grossman is pursuing legislation that would allow the state lottery to test online lottery ticket sales.

01/23/2013
Jill Kaufman

On stage Thursday night at Smith College in Northampton is a new work of 'verbatim theater.

01/22/2013
Leanna First-Arai

Fire officials in Amherst, Massachusetts say an early morning blaze on Monday at an apartment building where one student was killed and more than thirty people left homeless -- raises a string of s

01/22/2013
Henry Epp

A Massachusetts chemist employed at a state crime drug lab in Amherst was arraigned Tuesday on multiple charges of evidence tampering and drug possession.

01/22/2013
Jeremy Goodwin

In the wake of the school shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown Connecticut, the national conversation has turned to both gun control and school safety.

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