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Meta Mesdag, owner of Salty Lady Seafood Company, inspects oyster cages exposed by low tide. (Chris Bentley/Here & Now)

As Alaska’s climate warms, shellfish poisoning spreads to unfamiliar waters
The Boston Latin School (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Some Boston public schools are magnets for private dollars. Most aren’t so lucky
NYC's congestion pricing program is working largely as intended, transportation experts say

In defiant U.N. speech, Iranian president accuses U.S. of bullying his country
Eran Hood, University of Alaska Southeast environmental scientist, at the empty glacial basin where the flood originates each year. 16-billion gallons of water from melting glaciers flowed downstream toward Juneau from this now-empty lake. (Peter O’Dowd/Here & Now)

The melting Alaska glacier that wears the scars of climate change
Lottery tickets at a convenience store in Boston. With the launch of Massachusetts Lottery Online, a form of scratch ticket as well as other games are available digitally. (Jesse Costa/WBUR file)

Sales approach $140 million in first month of Mass. Lottery online
This image provided by the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities shows water in a neighborhood in Juneau, Alaska, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, following an outburst of flooding from a lake dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier. (Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities via AP)

Juneau races to find ‘lasting solution’ to annual glacial floods
Commuters board an MBTA Orange Line shuttle bus as other buses wait at North Station. (Jesse Costa/WBUR, file)

The MBTA looks for a new shuttle bus contract, signaling more service disruptions
Clavicular at Paris Fashion Week in 2026. (Christian Vierig/Getty Images)

‘Looksmaxxing’ influencer known as Clavicular is charged with rape in Mass.
Predicted radar showing the coastal storm for Friday, Sept. 25 at 2 p.m. (Danielle Noyes/1DegreeOutside)

Fall arrives with cool air and a high-impact marine storm brewing
Mayor Michelle Wu during a 2024 press conference.

Mass. mayoral elections use all-party primaries. So what do mayors think of Question 3?
This drone photo taken by the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, shows the landslide in Ketchikan, Ak., Aug. 26, 2024. (Travis Watkins via AP Photo)

Climate change is raising the risk of deadly landslides. Alaskans are living on the edge
Headshot of Andrea Perdomo-Hernandez

Feds hand MBTA safety oversight back to state
The future Solimine House affordable senior housing in Lynn (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Affordable senior housing with health care will replace former Lynn hospital
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators hold signs during a "Free Palestine" protest before an Ed Sheeran concert in Philadelphia, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Allie Ippolito)

Ed Sheeran says situation in Gaza is ‘catastrophic and unjustifiable’ as he opens concert
Lindsay Clancy looks on as jurors enter the courtroom during Clancy's murder trial at the Plymouth County Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., on Sept. 4. (Greg Derr/AFP pool photo via Getty Images)

Holdout juror in Clancy trial says he didn’t have ‘any doubts’ that she was responsible for killing her kids
Boston Red Sox's Roman Anthony watches his two-run single off Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Ian Seymour during the second inning of a baseball game Friday, Sept. 18, 2026, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Red Sox beat Rays 4-2 to close in on playoff spot
CNN Senior White House Reporter Betsy Klein, holding up an empty credential holder, reports near the White House complex after having her credential confiscated following President Donald Trump's ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

After Trump ban, MS NOW and CNN say their journalists were denied access to White House
Homes on Western Avenue in Cambridge that were slated for demolition this past July.

Why Cambridge is looking to tweak its recent historic zoning overhaul
A Red Line MBTA train bound for Alewife pulls into Boston's South Station. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR, File)

Arlington blocked a Red Line extension decades ago. Now, the town wants to revive the idea
Headshot of Samata Joshi

Podcast: What happens next in the Lindsay Clancy case?
A sign is displayed outside of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education building on June 25, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

Mass. parents’ story about child’s gender transition complicated by court records
Carly Rae Jepsen. (Courtesy of Vince Aung)

Carly Rae Jepsen channels a vast whirlwind of emotions in her new double album ‘Day and Night’
BU professor of the practice of playwriting Kate Snodgrass observes as writer Ronan Noone leads a class at the Playwrights' Theatre in Boston in 2016. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Effort to save BU’s playwriting program musters support from Broadway and Hollywood
The cover of "This Was Funnier in China" by Jesse Appell. (Courtesy of Avid Reader Press)

Jesse Appell, an American comedian in China, shares his ‘cross-cultural journey’ in new memoir
Moises Rodrigues, pictured on Nov. 4, 2025. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Brockton mayor facing assault and battery charge over allegedly touching high school student
Mass. House unanimously passes data privacy bill

Healey launches push to expand maternal mental healthcare
A decommissioning crew works in the dryer separator pit filled with filtered wastewater in the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station reactor.

State will not allow disposal of radioactive water in Cape Cod Bay
Headshot of Lisa Mullins

WBUR’s Deb Becker on what it was like inside the Lindsay Clancy trial courtroom
Kevin Tuerff started Pay-It-Forward-9/11 after being stranded in Newfoundland on Sept. 11, 2001. (Business Wire/AP)

On Sept. 11, 2001, he got stranded in Canada. Now, he runs Pay it Forward 9/11
A visitor guides an electric bicycle around a test track at the Electrify Expo, Sunday, July 14, 2024, in north Denver. (David Zalubowski/AP)

With injuries on the rise, cycle shop owners joins others who won’t sell e-bikes to minors
The Boston Medical Center, seen from Harrison Ave. in Boston in 2023. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR, File)

Boston Medical Center nurses vote to authorize strike
Real estate agents arrive at a brokers tour showing a house for sale with a list price of $1.3 million May 17, 2007 in San Rafael, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

How are you and your family navigating the housing crisis?
John Ogonowski in his American Airlines uniform in the cockpit of a plane. (Courtesy of Laura Ogonowski)

Families of 9/11 victims feel duty, 25 years later, to preserve legacies of lost loved ones
NYC's congestion pricing program is working largely as intended, transportation experts say

Sept. 11 attacks changed countless lives forever. We look back at how we covered the day
NYC's congestion pricing program is working largely as intended, transportation experts say

OpenAI claims to have solved a million-dollar math problem. Was credit given where it was due?
Anthony Pilla flings a pizza skyward over City Hall Plaza at the Boston Pizza Festival. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

6 food festivals to check out around Boston this fall
A badly damaged flag recovered from the World Trade Center debris is displayed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

How 9/11 shaped America | On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
Mandy Silverman of Sharon, known online as Mandylicious, braids apple-stuffed challah in the WBUR kitchen. (Lynn Jolicoeur/WBUR)

Challah with a twist: A change-up for the traditional Rosh Hashanah bread
Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., joined by, from left, entertainer and activist Jon Stewart, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., holds a news conference to call for continuing support of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act that has provided health monitoring and financial aid to the first responders, volunteers, and survivors of the September 11 attacks, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, March 5, 2018. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Congresswoman who helped create 9/11 health fund says she has a 9/11-related illness
A person falls from the north tower of New York's World Trade Center Tuesday Sept. 11, 2001, after terrorists crashed two hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and brought down the twin 110-story towers. (Richard Drew/AP)

Photographer who took the ‘Falling Man’ photo remembers that moment
Headshot of Ben Brock Johnson

Podcast: How social media distorted facts in Clancy’s murder trial
Aja Jackson, Boston City Councillor Miniard Culpepper and state Rep. Chynah Tyler call for a closer look at rail and a discarding of the center-running bus lane. (Seth Daniel/Dorchester Reporter)

Blue Hill Ave. meeting draws opponents, supporters of center-running bus lane proposal
Lila Nordstrom (left) and fellow Stuyvesant High School graduates, 2002 (Courtesy of Lila Nordstrom)

She watched the towers fall on 9/11. Then she watched her high school peers get sick from the air
NYC's congestion pricing program is working largely as intended, transportation experts say

Leading expert on Kratom did not disclose longstanding ties to industry lobbyists
District Court Judge Shelley Joseph departs federal court, April 25, 2019, in Boston. (Steven Senne/AP, File)

Mass. judge accused of enabling immigrant to escape ICE gets a rare public reprimand
Brian McGrory photographed in his office at the Boston Globe in 2022. (Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

McGrory ends his time at BU, makes move to Globe permanent
The empty Plymouth Superior Court jury box during the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, pool file)

If Clancy is retried, experts expect an ‘intense’ and long jury selection process
Cannabis flower for sale in Brookline. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Mass. cannabis sector hits $10 billion in sales ahead of repeal vote
The cover of "Carla Bakes" and author Carla Hall. (Courtesy of 4 Color Books and Marvin Joseph)

Carla Hall’s new cookbook adds creative twists to old faves, including chicken pot pie Pop Tarts
Gov. Maura Healey speaks about an executive order regarding data centers during a press conference on Sept. 8, 2026 at the State House. (Katie Castellani/SHNS)

Proposed data centers subjected to local approvals under Gov. Healey’s order
Wellesley woman accused of killing her children amid custody dispute

1 dead, several injured in shooting at weekend house party in Taunton
A bald eagle at Alaska's Eagle Beach. (Chris Bentley/Here & Now)

Take a hike into the wild on Alaska’s Eagle Beach
Former Boston Red Sox manager Joe Morgan waves to fans as he is honored prior to a baseball game between the Red Sox and the Seattle Mariners in Boston on July 30, 2013. (Elise Amendola/AP file)

Joe Morgan, former Boston Red Sox manager who led hometown team to 2 division titles, dies at 95
Lindsay Clancy sits in Plymouth Superior Court during jury selection. (Pool photo: Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger)

Podcast: WBUR’s Deb Becker spent weeks at the Clancy trial. Here’s what she saw
Jenna Howe facilitates a support group at Call2Talk in Framingham for people impacted by murder-suicide loss. She lost her mother and brother to murder-suicide in 2022. (Lynn Jolicoeur/WBUR)

New Mass. group provides support to people whose loved ones died in murder-suicides
WBUR launches special series of 'Beyond All Repair' podcast following mistrial in Lindsay Clancy case

WBUR launches special series of ‘Beyond All Repair’ podcast following mistrial in Lindsay Clancy case
Headshot of Emily Piper-Vallillo

More Mass families will get help paying for childcare, but tens of thousands remain on waitlist
The benches clear during the eighth inning of a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Boston Red Sox, Friday, Sept. 4, 2026, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Benches clear between O’s and Red Sox after double play
An undated photo of Thomas Rose. (Gretchen Ertl/MIT)

MIT professor struck by driver while cycling on Memorial Drive dies of injuries
The exterior of Loretta’s Last Call on Friday, Sept. 2, 2026. (Artemisia Luk/WBUR)

In Boston, Dolly Parton fans honor the Queen of Country with a night of line dancing
Lindsay Clancy looks on as jurors enter the courtroom during Clancy's murder trial at the Plymouth County Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., on Sept. 4. (Greg Derr/AFP pool photo via Getty Images)

Judge declares mistrial in Clancy case after jurors, with ‘heavy heart,’ fail to reach verdict
A Haitian flag is is seen flying in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, on July 29, 2026. (Ryan Murphy/AFP via Getty Images)

A Haitian immigrant feared deportation. His family says that fear led to suicide
Thai corn soup. (Kathy Gunst/Here & Now)

As summer slips away, hold on tight to the last batch of seasonal produce
Beachgoers sit throughout Peggotty Beach in Scituate on July 2, 2026. (Patrick Madden/WBUR)

Labor Day weekend forecast: A little bit of everything as summer ends
Lindsay Clancy watches jury members as Judge William Sullivan polls them before they start deliberations during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass. on Aug. 31. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

Day 5 of Clancy trial jury deliberations: A spectator’s arrest, plus talk of what a mistrial would mean
Mark Your Calendar: The WBUR Breakfast Club Brings Together Founders and CEOs Reshaping Fashion, Gaming and Biotech This Fall

Mark Your Calendar: The WBUR Breakfast Club Brings Together Founders and CEOs Reshaping Fashion, Gaming and Biotech This Fall
Emergency alert issued by Harvard University officials on Tuesday morning. (Screenshot via Harvard University)

Harvard, police say suspect in custody after search for person armed with ‘knife’ or ‘machete’
Lindsay Clancy looks at the jurors seated in the courtroom during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., on Sept. 1. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

Jurors in Clancy case say they cannot agree. Judge instructs them to keep deliberating
Snow leopards frolic on snowy terrain. (Courtesy of Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi)

‘The Ghost of the Mountains’ tells the tale of tracking the elusive snow leopard
A Flock Safety license plate reader is seen along a public road on Oct. 16 in Houston. (David Goldman/AP file photo)

Amid community pushback, law enforcement defends Flock cameras
Headshot of Nik DeCosta-Klipa

Here are the local races to watch in the Massachusetts state primary Tuesday
The cover of "Neverfear" and author Katherin Rundell. (Courtesy of Penguin Random House and Nina Subin)

‘A stick of dynamite of hope’: Author Katherine Rundell on reading kids’ books as an adult
A harvest of seaberries. (Courtesy Boston Food Forest Coalition)

Apples, grapes and … seaberries? Inside a Boston food forest harvest
A ladybug sits on a dandelion flower. (Sergei Grits, File/AP Photo)

The weird world of ladybugs
Headshot of Suevon Lee

Cannabis executive testifies against Suffolk sheriff in extortion trial
Headshot of Dean Russell

Rewind: The Stepchild’s Dilemma | Dear Sugars
Lindsay Clancy watches jurors as they enter the courtroom to start their second day of deliberations in her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court on Friday, Aug. 28, 2026 in Plymouth Mass. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

Jury in Lindsay Clancy trial ends second day of deliberations without a verdict
Unique Cuts in Dorchester.

Boston offers to trim back-to-school costs with free haircuts
Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer speaks at the inaugural Sustainability Day at the State House on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. (Sam Drysdale/SHNS)

State’s first climate chief leaving Healey administration
Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama photographed in 2012. She died this month at age 97. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

A mindbending ‘Infinity Room’ by the late pop artist Yayoi Kusama will reopen at the ICA
Paul Giamatti (Jean) and John Turturro (Berenger) in performance for A.R.T.'s production of "Rhinoceros." (Courtesy of Hawver and Hall)

How sound designers give rhinos life in dazzling new production of Ionesco’s ‘Rhinoceros’
Lindsay Clancy listens to the testimony during her murder trial in Plymouth Superior Court, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

Jury begins deliberating whether Lindsay Clancy is criminally responsible for killing her children
FILE - Pages from the Anthropic website and the company's logo are displayed on a computer screen in New York, Feb. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)

Is AI helping human creativity, or harming it?
Headshot of Emily Piper-Vallillo

Boston Public Schools wasted $857k in taxpayer dollars skirting contracting rules, inspector general finds
People take part in a speed-dating event, at the Prince of Peckham pub, as it reopens to indoor customers, in London, Monday, May 17, 2021. (Alberto Pezzali/AP)

Can an ‘everyday bro’ fix your dating life? Comedian Jared Freid thinks so
Paul Giamatti and John Turturro in performance for A.R.T.’s production of "Rhinoceros." (Courtesy A.R.T./Hawver and Hall)

Giamatti and Turturro anchor a stampeding, stellar ‘Rhinoceros’ at A.R.T.
Ryan Bland, front man of the all-Black punk band Bushmon, performs at a concert in the 1990s. (Tara Osterman)

The not-so-underground world of Black punk
Worcester Police Headquarters. (Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Woman wanted in connection to Worcester officer’s death found dead, police say
An aedes aegypti mosquito is shown on human skin in a file photo, date and location not known, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (USDA file/AP)

West Nile risk ‘high’ as second human case turns up, health officials say
Asbjørg Nesje from Norway is a participant and trains in front of the Opera House in Oslo, Norway, on August 25, 2023, one day before the 2023 World Championship in Døds Diving (Death Diving). (Javad Parsa/AFP via Getty Images)

Diving into the extreme Norwegian sport of ‘death diving’
A still from "Franz." (Courtesy of Cohen Media Group)

Looking for ‘Franz’: Agnieszka Holland’s Kafka biopic pursues the man behind the legend
Boston Red Sox's Willson Contreras, right, reacts after hitting a three-run home run during the third inning of a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, in Boston. (AP Photo/Greg M. Cooper)

Willson Contreras hits 3-run homer, Red Sox outlast Giants 6-4 in Rafael Devers’ return to Fenway
The Boston Symphony Orchestra playing at Symphony Hall in March, conducted by Andris Nelsons. (Courtesy BSO/Winslow Townson)

BSO musicians vote to authorize first strike in the orchestra’s history
Lindsay Clancy's attorney Kevin Reddington speaks to Judge William Sullivan during proceedings in her murder trial on Aug. 20. (Josh Reynolds, Pool/AP)

The defense rests in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy
Vocalist and bassist Linda Pardee of The Chelsea Curve in 2022. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Rockers mourn the loss of beloved bassist Linda Pardee
Headshot of Simón Rios

On eve of trial, Middlesex DA drops charges against ICE protesters
(Eoneren/Getty Images)

Brainwaves: What happens between life and death?
A child uses a laptop. (Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

Springfield is piloting an AI-driven classroom. The teachers’ union is trying to stop it
NYC's congestion pricing program is working largely as intended, transportation experts say

Recalls surge for millions of vehicles as more parked cars burst into flame
Moderna shares surge after it says its experimental mRNA cancer treatment passed a key test

Moderna shares surge after it says its experimental mRNA cancer treatment passed a key test