Several dozen Rockport residents and others from Cape Ann gathered Saturday afternoon to consider what the town should look like at night.

State investigators uncovered more than $4.4 million in welfare fraud in the second half of last year, according to a new report, which comes as Beacon Hill faces ...

Massachusetts Inspector General Jeffrey Shapiro is correct in describing the budgeting process for the state’s county sheriff’s departments “fundamentally broken.” ...

Ten student-athletes from the Gloucester High indoor track squad represented their program at Nike Nationals in New York this past weekend — and each of them will head home with ...

Meanwhile, out in the barnyard, the animals are not amused. They can't tell you which ones and when, but they know that winters aren’t supposed be as snowy, windy, wet, ...

Pope Leo XIV has urged a ceasefire in the Middle East and called on leaders in the Iran war to reopen talks. On Sunday, he ...

The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is expanding, but the public data that tracks it is drying up. Researchers ...

A Russian missile and drone strike has hit the Kyiv region and killed at least four people. The regional administration head ...

Republicans are urging the state’s highest court to rule on legal challenges seeking to force a voter-approved audit of the ...

Communities were reeling and authorities investigating after attacks at Old Dominion University in Virginia and a Michigan synagogue unfolded less than two hours apart. The FBI says Friday a Michigan ...

Iranians are having to make hard choices about whether to flee for safer locales during the war. Thus far, relatively few ...

Schoolchildren in Manchester and Essex celebrated “Read Across America Week” and a teacher called the event a success.