The endangered North Atlantic right whale population took a big hit last year, with a record number killed by fishing gear entanglements and ship strikes. Now, an ongoing debate over threats posed by Maine's lobster industry is gaining new urgency.

Massachusetts is rolling out legal recreational marijuana sales this summer, with pot shops scheduled to open in July.

At President Trump's first full cabinet meeting in June 2017, we watched with some amusement while each member expressed over-the-top gratitude for the president's giving them the privilege to serve him and/or the American people.

A lot has happened in the recent days. The news is fast, complicated, disturbing and in some cases, hopeful.

The November midterms are fast-approaching -- raising concerns about election security and the safeguarding of local voter identity. This hour, we look at how Connecticut is responding with Secretary of the State Denise Merrill. Plus: a Middletown-based prison program gives incarcerated adults the opportunity to work towards an Associate degree behind bars. We learn about the Wesleyan Center for Prison Education and its recent degree-granting collaboration with Middlesex Community College. And

Stonington High School junior Caroline Morehouse was excited when she learned that her school would allow students to walkout of class to protest gun violence in a nationwide day of action on March 14. She'd be standing in solidarity with students from Parkland, Florida, who only a month earlier had lost 17 classmates in yet another school shooting.

Six months after Hurricane Maria, the recovery effort in Puerto Rico is well underway. Still, the island faces many critical long-term challenges.

Six months after Hurricane Maria, evacuees from Puerto Rico are still looking for affordable places to live. And they’re looking to the government for help, particularly through available public housing, but they’re not getting it.

It's the latest darling of the vegetable world. It's found in salads, sautées, chips, and even shakes. This cabbage family crop has been around for years, but now it's a rock star. We've always known it’s nutritious, but with newer varieties and some good PR, it's sexy, too!

Samite Mulondo went from a refugee camp in Kenya to collaborating with Paul Simon. This hour, the musician and Uganda native joins us in the studio to share his story and his music.