New England stories — September 2026
128 stories, newest first.
- 🏥 $20 million gift expands health care at home in rural New England
- 🚔 Burlington police lieutenant resigns amid five misconduct investigations
- 🪵 New England families turn to firewood as heating oil prices surge
- ⚖️ Lindsay Clancy defense challenges evidence she killed her children
- 🏛️ UMaine removes George Mitchell’s name from center and scholarships
- ⚖️ Cornell rape investigation reopened after former student files lawsuit
- 🚨 Susan Collins' Biddeford office vandalized with vulgar message
- 🚒 Six-alarm fire tears through historic Roxbury building
- ⚖️ Lindsay Clancy due back in court Tuesday after mistrial
- 🚨 Lakeville man killed during exchange of gunfire with police
- 🗳️ Collins' Kavanaugh vote returns to center of Maine Senate race
- 🌧️ Nor’easter keeps soaking Massachusetts as flood threat lingers
- ⚖️ Vermont AG prosecutes 13 anti-ICE protesters after local prosecutor declined similar cases
- 🎓 Saint Anselm expands free tuition program to Vermont
- ☕ Man arrested in racist vandalism at Manchester coffee shop
- 🌧️ Nor’easter knocks out power and pounds New England coast
- 🏛️ Vermont Supreme Court clears return-to-office mandate
- 🏛️ Lawrence mayor indicted on 15 new state charges
- 🔥 Maine heating oil hits record $6.02 per gallon
- 🌊 Nor’easter raises coastal flood threat across Massachusetts
- 📷 New Hampshire becomes model for limiting license plate cameras
- 🚨 Police identify suspected trafficking victims at Newport spa
- 🚨 3 charged in shooting near Lawrence High School
- 🌧️ Utilities prepare for outages as nor’easter closes in
- 🎓 CCSU president resigns amid bullying allegations
- 🚚 Box truck plunges off I-293 bridge into Merrimack River
- ⚖️ ICE arrest at Connecticut courthouse sparks confrontation
- 🌧️ Weekend nor’easter targets southern New England
- ⚖️ Maine challenges federal offshore wind buyouts
- ⚖️ ‘Clavicular’ charged with rape on Cape Cod
- ⚖️ NH chief justice resigns after admitting ethics violations
- 🚨 ICE arrests surge across New Bedford area
- 📞 Mass. audit finds long waits and delayed unemployment benefits
- 🌉 Manchester closes Queen City Bridge over structural concerns
- ⚖️ Vermont jury convicts man who shot three Palestinian students
- ✈️ Logan flight disruptions expected to continue Tuesday
- 👟 Boston-based Converse pulls ad after racist imagery backlash
- 🐺 Coyote attacks man after approaching 2-year-old in Haverhill
- 🪲 Another spotted lanternfly found in New Hampshire
- 🚗 Grandmother and two grandchildren found dead in submerged car
- 🌲 Roadless protections at risk across 241,000 New England acres
- 🔥 New England heating oil nears $6 before winter
- 🔴 UMass Dartmouth student charged in teammate’s stabbing death
- 🌊 Massive ‘chocolate tide’ stretches across New England coast
- 💰 Kosta Diamantis sues Connecticut after state stops his pension
- ⚖️ Suspended Plymouth officer, husband indicted on child rape charges
- 🏥 20 Lewiston nurses fired or suspended amid union fight
- ⚖️ Mass. judge strikes down $600 million in teacher-training cuts
- 🌲 Penobscot Nation regains 11,297 acres near Katahdin
- 🚨 Second suspect charged in killing of Cambridge DPW worker
- 🏛️ Ex-Connecticut official flees to Greece before corruption sentencing
- ☕ Manchester coffee shop vandalized with racist graffiti
- ⚖️ Jury hears recording from man accused of shooting Palestinian students
- ⚖️ Brockton mayor charged with assault and battery
- 🦠 Maine confirms new measles case in unvaccinated adult
- 🏥 Healey proposes expanded postpartum care across Massachusetts
- ☢️ Massachusetts blocks Pilgrim nuclear wastewater discharge into Cape Cod Bay
- 🏥 UVM Health and Dartmouth Health announce major workforce cuts
- 🏫 New Haven assistant principal charged with sexually assaulting student
- 🏥 Vermont orders hospital price cuts
- 🎤 Macklemore dropped from Ed Sheeran tour after venue backlash
- 🚨 Boston rejects future Flock use after surveillance audit
- ⚖️ Five New England states sue over new immigration rule
- 🦟 West Nile risk rises across most of Massachusetts
- 🏈 A.J. Brown sidelined with severe ankle sprain
- 🏍️ Three killed in Laconia motorcycle collision
- 🌧️ Flash flooding swamps coastal Connecticut
- 🚌 Boston pitches revised Blue Hill Avenue bus plan to packed meeting
- 🥬 Record lettuce-linked Cyclospora outbreak declared over
- ⚖️ Clancy holdout juror had active restraining order during trial
- 🌧️ Flood watches expand as heavy rain targets southern New England
- 🧳 TSA considers allowing full water bottles through security
- 🏥 Brattleboro hospital reverses plan to close birthing center
- ⚖️ Clancy jurors reveal 11–1 split favoring insanity acquittal
- ⛽ Diesel tops $6 in five New England states
- 🚌 MBTA bus crashes into six vehicles after driver's apparent medical emergency
- ⚖️ Massachusetts judge publicly reprimanded over conduct in 2018 ICE case
- 🚨 Police search Massachusetts State Police barracks in sexual assault investigation
- 💻 Springfield cyberattack keeps 23,000 students home all week
- 🍎 SNAP cuts threaten federal funding for free school meals across New England
- 👮 Danbury opens police jobs to green card holders and DACA recipients
- ⚖️ Vermont Lt. Gov. reaches resolution in cannabis licensing case
- 🚨 Salem murder suspect arrested in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
- ⚡ Massachusetts blocks state permits for data centers without local approval
- 🗳️ Sununu and Pappas headline New Hampshire's November matchups
- 🚨 Cyberattack closes Springfield schools for second day
- 🗳️ Rhode Island voters cast primary ballots in major statewide races
- 💻 Cyber incident shuts down Springfield Public Schools
- ⚖️ Mass. AG assesses nearly $12.7M in workplace violations
- 🗳️ New Hampshire voters head to polls for statewide primary
- ⚖️ Massachusetts immigration courts add judges with little immigration-law experience
- 🏥 Nearly 300 NH residents may lose Medicaid Oct. 1
- 🩺 NH man lived 271 days with genetically edited pig kidney
- 🚨 1 killed, 7 wounded in Taunton house party shooting
- 🍁 Canadian counter-tariffs take effect Tuesday
- 👮 Massachusetts State Police academy to resume recruit training in October
- 🇺🇸 More than 1,000 rally in Danbury after wave of ICE arrests
- 🏛️ Maine lawmakers say ICE plans new facility in Newport
- ⚖️ Boston judge blocks new USPS mail-ballot requirements
- 🚲 MIT professor dies after Memorial Drive bicycle crash
- 🚨 Boston councilor seeks hate-crime probe after elderly woman attacked
- 💉 Mass. med spa owner gets 46 months for counterfeit injections
- ⚖️ Mistrial declared in Lindsay Clancy murder case
- 🗳️ Opponents seek referendum on new Massachusetts abortion law
- ☕ Mass. cites Dunkin’ operator, staffing firms for $1.46 million
- 📷 Revere officer suspended after misusing Flock camera system
- ⚖️ DOJ asks Supreme Court to lift Boston judge’s block on USPS ballot rules
- 🗳️ NH officials prepare for federal monitors ahead of Tuesday primary
- 🏫 New IRS tax rule could reach private colleges across New England
- ⚖️ Judge rejects bid to remove juror in Lindsay Clancy trial
- ⚖️ Suffolk sheriff acquitted in federal corruption trial
- ⚖️ Massachusetts cites addiction program $1.15 million
- ⚖️ Clancy jury deadlocks again in Massachusetts trial
- 🗳️ Massachusetts voters renominate Ed Markey for Senate
- 🚪 Judge Closes Hearing on Hampton I-95 Redevelopment Lawsuit
- ⚖️ Lindsay Clancy Jury Reports Deadlock
- ⚖️ Massachusetts DA Primaries Keep Incumbents in Office
- ⚖️ Lawsuit Seeks to Remove NH School Tax Cap Question
- ⚖️ Maine High Court Upholds Custody Order on Church Attendance
- 🗳️ Susan Collins Rejects ICE at Maine Polls
- 🎰 Encore Boston Harbor Workers Set Friday Strike Deadline
- 🗳️ Massachusetts Voters Set Major November Matchups
- 🦈 Swimmer injured in suspected shark bite off Martha's Vineyard
- 🇨🇦 Some Haitian TPS holders leave Massachusetts for Canada
- ☘️ Jaylen Brown Returns to Boston for Community Festival
- 🦟 Massachusetts confirms two more West Nile virus cases
- ⚖️ Randolph man arraigned in fatal Roxbury shooting
- 🚨 Three teens shot near Lawrence High School after dismissal