New England Public Radio News

Officials at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plan in Southern Vermont are providing more details about a radioactive leak on the site. And as WFCR's Fred Bever reports, Vermont governor Jim Douglas has told Yankee's top CEO the...

The principal of a high school in South Hadley, Massachusetts says he wants to organize an anti-bullying task force following a student's suicide last week. WFCR's Kari Njiiri reports.

Results from the US Senate special election show Western Massachusetts supporters of Republican Scott Brown turned out in force to vote. WFCR's Fred Bever reports.

Turnout in the Massachusetts senate election for the seat left vacant by the death of longtime Senator Edward Kennedy was far higher than expected as little as a week ago. WFCR's Fred Bever reports.

A week has passed since the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Last week, we spoke with one Western Massachusetts resident whose father and stepmother were in the capitol, Port-au-Prince, at the time of the quake and unaccounted for...

Massachusetts towns whose schools are organized into unions will gain more control over their fates under a provision that was tucked into the broad education reform package Governor Deval Patrick signed into law yesterday. WFCR's...

Members of a church in Longmeadow, Massachusetts are coping with heartbreak over the earthquake in Haiti - a school they helped build was flattened, and dozens are feared dead. WFCR's Karen Brown has more.