New England Public Radio News

With another regional sports team playing for a league championship, officials at UMass-Amherst are again preparing for rowdy behavior. WFCR's Bob Paquette reports.

After 30 years, "Available Potential Enterprises", more commonly known as A.P.E., is leaving its space on the top floor of the Thorne's Marketplace in Northampton, Massachusetts. The arts organization provides performance space...

A research team at the Mayo Clinic recently announced they'd isolated medical compounds from a tropical tree -- which could lead to the development of new antibiotics. The scientists were using a 17th century book, newly translated...

Every year, about 700 adolescents in the custody of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services simply age out of the system at 18 -- having never been adopted. Studies have found a high percentage of them will end up homeless...

Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster is known as an ambassador for the music and dance of her native Nova Scotia, where fiddling and step dancing are inseparable. The Canadian government has acknowledged MacMaster's contribution...

Massachusetts Congressman Richard Neal took to the floor of the House of Representatives on Thursday. He spoke in favor of a resolution denouncing President Bush's plan to increase the number of American troops in Iraq.

A Valentine's Day talk with a journalistic love professional. Daniel Jones of Northampton writes the Modern Love column in the New York Times. Jones' column is published in the Styles section of the Times, and a...