A state judge made the ruling today, citing that teacher strikes are illegal in Massachusetts. WHDH reports the fines could add up to $180,000 if the strikes continue through Friday. Cover your mouth: Health officials are monitoring an increase in ...
Ahead of a Beacon Hill hearing, a trio of Massachusetts lawmakers have called on a state oversight panel to ask some tough questions of the company that‘s taken over the physicians’ network formerly owned by bankrupt Steward Health Care. Benson Sloan ...
Six years after the Federal Election Commission ruled federal candidates can use campaign funds to pay for child care, Massachusetts is poised to do the same. Massachusetts lawmakers are primed to pass a long-sought change to state law that would allow ...
Cancer is a leading cause of death across the globe and while anyone can get the disease, the American Cancer Society stated that black women are known to have a higher cancer death rate and are more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive cancers than other races.
On Thursday at 3:01 a.m. a coastal flood statement was issued by the National Weather Service valid for Thursday between 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Plymouth, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket counties.
A Florida man has been arrested in connection with a 1978 double murder in Massachusetts after investigators received a fresh tip, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Theresa Marcoux, 18, and Mark Harnish, 20, were found shot to death on the morning of Nov ...
Massachusetts had about 2,032 drug overdose deaths in the 12-month period that ended June 30, according to provisional CDC data. That was a major 23% decline from the 2,630 overdose deaths over the previous year. The Bay State’s estimated drop of 22.74% ...
The Northeast has been experiencing prolonged dry conditions. In Massachusetts, one wildfire among several fueled by powerful wind gusts and dry leaves has burned around 400 acres some 10 miles north of Boston.
A report cited Massachusetts as one of five states where there was no evidence that children in foster care were screened for human trafficking after they had gone missing from, and later returned to foster care. It is recommended by the State Auditor that ...
Two siblings from Massachusetts were rescued from Mount Chocorua after getting lost and injured. Rescuers found them near the Brook Trail late Saturday night.
Jack Teixeira, a Massachusetts Air National Guard member who pleaded guilty to leaking highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine, is expected to be sentenced in federal court.
Jon Gerhardson, of Chicopee, filed suit on Nov. 5 against Springfield Pie Inc., a franchisee that owns and operates several Domino’s locations in the Springfield area.
The state of Massachusetts is giving people who drive for a living extra incentive to buy or lease electric vehicles. Uber, Lyft and taxi drivers are now eligible for a $6,500 credit for an EV, on top of other pre-existing benefits. (The state offers $ ...
With a dramatic spike in wildfires through October and 12 days into November, Gov. Maura Healey urged Massachusetts residents to conserve water as firefighters work to contain fires across the state.
Moulton has come under fire from his own party this week after he told the New York Times on Thursday that Democrats was too worried about offending people that they were not being honest on issues like transgender athletes.
Shannon O'Brien has appealed her firing as chairwoman of the Cannabis Control Commission to the Supreme Judicial Court, arguing that the facts of her situation "were not properly found, and even taking them as true, fail to rise to the heightened grounds ...
Massachusetts Democratic U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton was criticized by members of his own party in the last day after speaking out against the left's stance on transgender athletes in girls and women's sports. In an interview with The New York Times ...
Although Massachusetts voters decided by a wide margin to eliminate the requirement to pass the MCAS tests in order to graduate high school, some students will continue taking retests this month. The graduation requirement to pass the series of tests has ...
Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly voted for Vice President Kamala Harris for president, and easily kept the Legislature’s Democratic supermajority — but more of them than ever cast their ballots for now-president-elect Donald Trump, and the Massachusetts Republican party grew its ranks in the state Senate.
Florida, North Dakota and South Dakota rejected proposals to legalize marijuana. Massachusetts denied a measure allowing possession of psychedelics. By Jan Hoffman An electorate that has grown increasingly restive over flagrant drug use and public disorder ...
It looks like you do not have any active subscriptions. To get one, go to the subscriptions page. AUBURN — A Massachusetts man accused of shooting a woman on a Lewiston street in August was charged this week with five felonies. The woman was hospitalized ...
Massachusetts voters on Tuesday decided by a wide margin to eliminate the requirement to pass the MCAS tests in order to graduate high school — but that might not be the last word. Before people had even made their way to the ballot box, the state ...
"Because the responses in the tumor and the heart are different, it makes us hopeful that we can someday disentangle the two and treat them separately," said co-lead researcher Dr. Steven Blum, an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Further ...
Health practitioners, experts, and officials are now wrestling with what that could mean for Massachusetts, which has one of the nation’s highest vaccination rates but is seeing a small but growing vaccine hesitancy movement. Kennedy, son of the late ...
The AI tells me, "Life has a funny way of surprising us and changing our perspectives," before recounting what is described as a "future memory" of a weekend spent looking after a friend's kids that changed its mind—as though those who choose not to have their own children are simply unfamiliar with the joy of their company.
As dry weather persists across Massachusetts and nearly 50 wildfires continue to burn, the state’s secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs declared Thursday that the majority of the state is in critical or significant drought.
