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After of a winter of exceptionally high natural gas and electricity prices, many New Englanders are asking whether a new natural gas pipeline is the solution.

On Tuesday, the mayor said the city will not comply with the federal government's recent demands to expand the city's policies to work with immigration enforcement.

A barn in Newbury serves as the rehearsal space for the production, “Voices from Ukraine.” The show opens with the actors reciting letters written by Ukrainian children about their villages and parents.

Galen Mook of the advocacy group MassBike joins WBUR's Morning Edition to share his thoughts on the issue.

Massachusetts is close to passing a statewide ban on phones in public schools. Superintendent Stephen Zrike shares what worked in Salem.

Meet Boston expects a 10% decline in foreign visitors to Greater Boston this year, after originally predicting an increase. Some travel officials cite anger in Canada at President Trump's push to make it the 51st state and growing fears that travelers could be detained at the border.

Vermont Public's Nina Keck reports on how a special summer language course at Middlebury College in Vermont helps budding opera stars master the language. 

Marshfield-based Road to Responsibility runs 52 group homes. Twelve percent of its workers are Haitians who are in the U.S. on Temporary Protected Status, a legal protection the Trump administration is ending.

Some Boston realtors who work in neighborhoods near large universities attribute the slowdown to new student visa processing protocols under the Trump administration.

Researchers and nonprofit leaders warn the pullback of federal data collection and reporting could harm efforts to help areas exposed to the greatest risks from pollution and climate change, and address historical inequities in environmental conditions.