Local NPR for Cape Cod, the South Coast, and Islands — CAI

Governor Maura Healey (at the podium) announced that alpha-gal syndrome will become a reportable condition in Massachusetts at the Frances A. Crane Wildlife Management Area in North Falmouth. Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner Dr. Robbie Goldstein (leftmost person standing) spoke about the importance of collecting data on the emerging condition.

Gilda Geist / CAI

State will start tracking cases of tick-borne mammal product allergy

Gilda Geist

Starting April 1, Massachusetts health care providers and labs will be required to alert the state when they encounter cases of the tick-borne allergy alpha-gal syndrome.

Governor Maura Healey (light brown jacket) makes a triangle shape with her hands and looks through it to determine her dominant eye for shooting a bow and arrow. Behind her (dark orange jacket) is science communicator, conservationist and television personality Jeff Corwin, a Massachusetts native who enjoys hunting.

Gilda Geist / CAI

Local News

Governor proposes policy changes to make hunting more accessible

Gilda Geist

A group of right whales simming at the surface of the water

New England Aquarium, taken under NMFS Permit #25739

Local News

North Atlantic right whales are on the move and arriving in numbers

Amy Kolb Noyes

In This Place

Feeder frenzy

Mark Faherty

Mark Faherty talks about the surging bird populations on the cape in the springtime.
In This Place

Dreaming of dune shack summers on Nantucket

Mary Bergman

I hadn’t been out to the South Shore since last December, when weeks of high wind revealed the bones of an ancient shipwreck.
In This Place

Lessons About The Brain

Mindy Todd

Our brains don’t work the way we think they do. For example, our actions are based on predictions formulated by our brain, not in reaction to experiences…
In This Place

Fresh Sonic: Crab Hunters

The Jerolmack brothers love crabs. Produced by Mae Nagusky and Atlantic Public Media.
In This Place

Split Arborvitaes and Insects of Interest

C.L. Fornari

This week C.L. is joined by Tawny Simisky and Esher Cattle, Entomologists with the Cooperative Extension and answers your garden questions.

The Point

Mike Dunbar

The local news roundup

Mindy Todd

A review of the week's regional headlines with our region's leading journalists.
karenstollznow.com

The Power of Words

Mindy Todd

How words take on or lose meaning as language evolves, and what this tells us about cultures and society.
Mental Illness and Stigma

Mindy Todd

Mental illness and stigma: a discussion on The Point's monthly behavioral health program.
Courtesy Nico Lang

Supporting transgender kids and adults in our community

Mindy Todd , Amy Vince

Conversations around trans kids in particular tends to sensationalize the fight over how they should be allowed to live. We hear stories of families moving, sometimes multiple times, to locations where their children can get the gender affirming care they need.

NPR Stories

Zoe McDonald

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Vermont Public

What we know 2 weeks after the ICE raid in South Burlington

Liam Elder-Connors

Since the raid on March 11, all three people detained by ICE have been released and police have faced scrutiny from lawmakers over their role in the botched immigration enforcement action.
Emily Feng

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NPR

Greetings from Turkey's border with Iran, where Iranians let loose on the dance floor

Emily Feng

Iranians escaping hardship and war are shaking it off to Persian, Arabic and Turkish tunes in this disco in eastern Turkey.

Jury orders Meta and Google to pay woman $3 million in social media addiction trial

Bobby Allyn

The verdict marks the end of the first-ever jury trial over whether tech giants should be held accountable for social media addiction. It may influence the outcome of 2,000 other pending lawsuits.
For the first time in more than 1,400 years, Church of England gets a woman leader

Robbie Griffiths

A new archbishop of Canterbury has been installed in a historic ceremony. Sarah Mullally is the 106th person to hold the job, and the first woman.
Savannah Guthrie's first interview since mother Nancy vanished: 'I imagine her terror'

Bill Chappell

Nearly two months after Nancy Guthrie disappeared, her daughter Savannah discusses the toll on her family in an emotional interview with her Today show colleague Hoda Kotb.