From a garlic festival in Vermont to a newly renovated Maine hotel, this week's New England travel round-up has you covered.

With a one of the world’s biggest superstars on center stage at Gillette Stadium, fans from far and wide flocked to Foxboro. Lionel Messi and Inter Miami took the New England Revolution Wednesday night. Outside before the game, tailgaters prepared to see one of the greatest soccer players of all time take the field.

The staff are among more than 130 federal employees facing investigation for signing a letter that EPA officials say misleads the public.

Two New England resorts just ranked among the best in the continental U.S. in Travel + Leisure's 2025 World's Best Awards.

Defunding Planned Parenthood is really an attempt to take away access to abortion in states where it is legal,” said one leader of the women’s health care organization.

"Everything that they got, they forwarded it," radio host and former Patriots quarterback Scott Zolak said of Maye and his wife, Ann Michael Hudson

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