Huge meanders of the jet stream, or air current, get stuck in place, locking in extreme weather events that can alternately be associated with extreme heat and drought in one location and extreme rainfall in another.
New England
Former IT director holding police website hostage in pay dispute
A former Newton, Mass. employee is refusing to turn over access to the city’s police website.
Electric boats poised to make waves on Maine coast
Battery-powered outboards are seen as a first step in ‘electrifying’ the working waterfront. Are pleasure boats next?
Former Minot man sentenced to 8 months in prison for role in U.S. Capitol riot
Glen Mitchell Simon was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty to a charge of disorderly and disruptive conduct at the Capitol.
Investigation blames human error for Seabrook nuclear plant siren
The announcements sent some beachgoers scrambling but officials said that there was no emergency nor danger to the public.
Juvenile charged with murder in shootings of New Hampshire woman, 2 young sons
The child has been charged under juvenile law in connection with the killings of the woman, who was 25, and boys who were 1 and 4 years old.
Investigators believe New Hampshire child who disappeared in 2019 was murdered
The monthslong search for Harmony Montgomery, age 5, who was only reported missing last year, has become a homicide investigation.
Native Americans urge boycott of ‘tone deaf’ Pilgrim museum
Native Americans in Massachusetts say Plimoth Patuxet Museums has not lived up to its promise of creating a ‘bi-cultural museum’ that equally tells the story of the European and Indigenous peoples who lived there.
School bus driver from Maine charged with stalking 8-year-old boy
It is alleged that the bus driver gave a New Hampshire student cellphones with instructions to take inappropriate photos of himself, placed tracing devices on his parents’ vehicles and made nighttime visits to their home.
Takeaways: Johnson vs. Barnes in Wisconsin, narrow Squad win
Voters in Vermont are poised to send a woman to Congress for the first time in the state’s 231-year history.