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2024 has already marked a record-setting year for bears entering homes in Connecticut. Officials are asking residents to stay "bear aware" this fall.
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The district policy applies to middle and high school students.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a contest to find a new way to reduce the toxicity of PCBs in rivers. The method won't be used to eliminate the PCB disposal site in Lee, Massachusetts, which is part of the agency's clean up of the Housatonic River.
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In the last two weeks alone, IFAW’s Yarmouth-based marine mammal rescue team has responded to 26 stranded dolphins, including 14 stranded bottlenose dolphins in Brewster on Monday. That event marked the largest recorded mass stranding of bottlenose dolphins in the U.S. Northeast.
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Parade organizers say they are pulling out all the stops in honor of the 60th anniversary of Hartford’s parade.
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Public media journalists took a boat to see the Vineyard Wind project, 35 miles off mainland Massachusetts, up close. GBH's Craig LeMoult spoke to Judy Yuill about the massive wind project.
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A biomedical engineering professor at UMass Amherst is leading a study to help find biomarkers for the cognitive disease, long before dementia sets in.
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As extreme rainfall becomes more common, a nonpartisan group of leaders representing Connecticut towns and cities calls for a plan to address flooding.
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Inspections by the state health officials in 2023 documented allegations of a nurse “kissing and touching” a patient’s private area in the patient’s room.
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The Luman R. Nelson taxidermy collection, which includes more than 600 birds and animals, has been in Marlboro since the early 1960s. The museum where it’s housed lost their lease and the collection is to be put into storage.
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Pieces of stone tools and pottery were first discovered at Sand Bar State Park in 2022. For the past two years, water levels of Lake Champlain have been too high to further excavate.
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Attorney General John Formella says his office is reviewing whether the hospital’s plans to cut a paramedic intercept program – along with neurology, podiatry and pediatric services at an affiliated physician practice – violate the conditions of its sale to a major health system last year.