New England Public Radio News

For the first time in months, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has agreed to face-to-face talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. So far, Israel's government has refused to deal with a new Palestinian national...

Massachusetts is vying with the state of Texas to host a facility which would test enormous wind turbine blades. WFCR's Tina Antolini reports.

A proposed biodiesel plant in Greenfield, Massachusetts is one step closer to becoming a reality. WFCR's Carrie Healy reports.

The 16th woman ever elected to the Massachusetts senate is now its first ever female president. Plymouth democrat Therese Murray was elected to succeed Robert Travaglini, who formally resigned from the senate today to take a job in...

The film My Mexican Shiva is at the Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival next week. The story focuses the death of Moishe, a beloved family patriarch. My Mexican Shiva is based on a novella by Ilan Stavans, a professor of...

The man who's presided over the Massachusetts Senate since 2003 is expected to step down today [Wed. 3/21], after nearly 14 years on Beacon Hill. Martha Bebinger of member station WBUR reports.

The FDA has yet to tally how many cats and dogs are suffering kidney failure or have died as a result of eating tainted pet food, now being recalled throughout North America. Some pets in Western New England have been affected....