Hundreds of residents, Boston City Councilors and local labor union members gathered in Boston’s Circle Plaza, condemning the recent raids carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in ...

A group of blind and low-vison people go birding "by ear" at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Mass., May 18, 2025. Walking through Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Mass. on a recent May morning, ...

In 2022, we grappled with a severe drought. In 2023, it rained so much, businesses in Old Orchard Beach, Maine and New Hampshire’s White Mountains feared they might lose the whole tourist season. In ...

On a visit to Asia, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signaled the U.S. will reorient its policy in the region toward, as he put it, quote, "deterring aggression by communist China." NPR's Anthony Kuhn ...

Community leaders in Hartford have launched a grassroots effort to maintain a summer jobs program for Hartford youth after a nonprofit that helped run it fell into financial trouble. Former employees ...

A federal study on mental health problems and substance use across the country that has been running for decades and is used by a wide range of researchers faces an uncertain future after President ...

A popular program that helps low-income families pay for heating and cooling is on the chopping block. President Trump’s recently released discretionary budget calls for eliminating the ...

For Richard Claytor, watching migrants being surrounded by law enforcement and dragged from their cars, all over social media and TV in recent months, seems too familiar. Black people in Boston, he ...

The whirring sounds of a metal 3D printer fill a small factory floor. Just blocks away are the boarded-up brick mill buildings in an old industrial neighborhood of Worcester, once the home of some of ...

In late 2024, photographer Kavya Krishna spent three months traveling across the country to photograph Indian American communities in states where she had personal connections for her project, "A Town ...