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Drought in Massachusetts reaches 'critical' phase

Most of the state received less than an inch of rain over the last 30 days, which is 3 to 4.5 inches below normal.

Massachusetts Republican Party dogged by new cash, legal woes weeks before election

The Massachusetts Republican Party settled a lawsuit Friday tied to work done by an outside marketing firm during the 2022 election but quickly found itself entangled in new cash and legal woes

Editorial: Survey headlines don’t always tell the entire story

What’s in a survey? Usually more than meets the eye. Occasionally, these national reviews — in journalistic parlance — bury the lead, or at least gloss over details in conflict with their

Does Mass Immigration Adversely Impact the Natural Environment?

Opponents of President Biden‘s immigration policies have resorted to suing the Environmental Protection Agency to claim mass immigration harms the environment.

Facing little competition at home, Massachusetts lawmakers cross the country to try to flip the House

WASHINGTON — With no competitive race within state borders, Massachusetts’ best-known lawmakers are venturing beyond them, sometimes thousands of miles away, to battleground districts in the hopes of wresting the House majority from Republican control.

Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts, reportedly to host 2026 Navy-Notre Dame football game

The Capital Gazette has learned that Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, will be the site of the 2026 Navy-Notre Dame game. A contract has been finalized and a formal announcement is likely to be made next week, multiple sources confirmed to the Capital Gazette on Friday.

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Massachusetts on Election Day

Massachusetts voters will cast ballots for president, Congress and the state Legislature in the Nov. 5 general election, as Democrats in the commonwealth look to continue their dominance in federal and state elections.

Question 3: Explaining the push to let rideshare drivers unionize

No matter how many hours drivers spend on apps like Uber and Lyft, legally, they are not considered employees — and currently can’t form a union.

You know the highlight of the Nov. 5 ballot. What else will South Shore voters decide?

Early voting begin this weekend across the state, giving voters a chance to cast ballots before Election Day on Nov. 5.

Mass. man killed woman after a breakup. After 33 years, he’s on parole.

Steven Woodworth was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 1992 for murdering Julie Harlow after she broke up with him. But after spending 33 years behind bars, where he’s completed several rehabilitation therapies, Woodworth, 59, was granted parole on Tuesday, the Massachusetts Parole Board announced.

What does it take to build Black wealth? Mass. leaders come together to find the answer.

Leaders like US Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey, and experts from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston talked about the need for business owners to get support at the state and local level.

Massachusetts nears 1 million early votes cast for presidential election

More than 1 million people in Massachusetts have already voted: See how that compares to the rest of the country.

2 cats with injured ears need loving homes in Massachusetts

Tiger is a 5-year-old domestic shorthair cat who has cauliflower ear. The condition causes the ear flap to become wrinkled and misshapen, resembling the shape of a cauliflower. It’s caused by a hematoma, which is a blood-filled swelling in the ear flap that occurs when a blood vessel breaks, Dakin Humane Society told MassLive.

Low-vision student honored at White Cane ceremony at Statehouse

At age 3 and new to the United States she started preschool in Lawrence as a low-vision student with a language barrier. She needed to learn English as well as braille. “It was very scary not only to learn how to use a cane but also to learn braille,

These 2 spots in Massachusetts were named some of the most beautiful in U.S. Here's where

Luckily, one publication picked out two places in Massachusetts to demonstrate just that. House Beautiful, a home magazine owned by Hearst Digital Media, ranked the 35 most beautiful places in the United States that must be visited, and two places in the Commonwealth were placed on the list.

Mother who beat and starved her 5-year-old son to death faces over 50 years in prison

A New Hampshire woman faces a sentence of over 50 years to life in prison in the death of her 5-year-old son, who was beaten, starved and exposed to drugs.

Harris Dispatches More Republicans, Celebrities to Battleground States

Now in the final sprint for the campaign, Kamala Harris is enlisting support from all areas in her bid to win the White House.

‘Another revolution about to start’ with $16M quantum computing project in Mass.

Controlled by lasers, the Quantum Computing Complex operates by “puffing up “ atoms to thousands of times their normal size and complete calculations at speeds far exceeding conventional processors.

Massachusetts is one of the safest states in America, according to new list. Here's why

Here's why Massachusetts took one of the top spots. WalletHub ranked Massachusetts as one of the safest states in America because it ranked highly across key safety metrics, such as being the third safest state when it comes to roads.

After Decades of Searching, Are Physicists Closing In on Dark Matter?

Analysis of the Bullet Cluster, which was formed after two large clusters of galaxies collided, supports the existence of dark matter. X-ray: NASA / CXC / CfA / M. Markevitch et al.; Optical: NASA / STScI; Magellan / U. Arizona / D. Clowe et al.; Lensing Map: NASA / STScI; ESO WFI; Magellan / U. Arizona / D. Clowe et al.

Massachusetts Legislature operates in the dark. Is anyone shocked?

So the release of her office’s audit of t Legislature — the white whale of her auditing ambitions — was hardly a shocker when it arrived even as voters are determining the fate of a ballot question aimed at giving her explicit powers to pore over the Legislature’s books.

Howie: Single-party rule is ruining Massachusetts, so vote GOP

Same situation in the race for the open seat in the Plymouth and Barnstable Senate District. GOP Rep. Matt Muratore from Plymouth is being opposed by Rep. Dylan Fernandes, another weak man who dreams of someday succeeding Bill Keating in Congress as a rubber stamp for the Deep State.

‘Don’t assume you are safe’: Data breaches spike in Massachusetts, following national trend

Micale remembered another email that summer: one from Southcoast Health, her health care provider, that her personal data had been part of a data breach of their systems. Micale said she quickly called up her bank and put a freeze on her account.

Federal, state police investigate arson fire at historic Massachusetts Catholic church

The fire chief said it appeared the Franklin, Massachusetts, church “is going to be out of service for a while,” in part because it “sustained a lot of smoke damage.”

Mass. father indicted on incest, child porn charges; son on assault, AG says

A Baystate Franklin Medical Center doctor lived with his father, who was indicted on several charges, including incest and trafficking a person for sexual servitude, the state attorney general's office said.

In unusual move, Mass. Senate reopens formal session to pass sweeping climate bill

Under an unusual order it adopted Thursday, the Massachusetts Senate allowed itself to take roll call votes through Dec. 31, the last day of its current two-year legislative session, but only on certain types of legislation.

Just how ‘blue’ is Mass.? Past election data holds the answer.

Since 1976, Massachusetts has voted red twice, both times for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984, Massachusetts voting data shows.

Fare-free service announced for 13 regional bus lines across Massachusetts

The funding was included in the state budget and followed two years of successful pilot programs, the Healey administration said.

Fall drought in Massachusetts could mean less snow this winter. Here's how

BOSTON - Most of Massachusetts is abnormally dry, according to new data released Thursday. There's no rain in the current weather forecast and the drought could be a sign that there might be significantly less snow coming this winter.

3 remain in critical condition after weekend motorcycle crash on I-195 in Swansea

The Bristol County District Attorney’s Office announced that three people are still in critical condition following a motorcycle crash on I-195 last weekend.

Who is leading presidential polls? How Harris, Trump are doing two weeks from election

Who is leading in the latest presidential polls? Here's how Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are shaping up with less than two weeks until election.

Deadly opioid overdoses declining in New York, Vermont, Massachusetts

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that fatal overdoses dropped by 12.7%. Now Massachusetts, Vermont, and even New York are also reporting a decline.

Kids can eat free at Mass. Applebee’s on Halloween

Kids can get a free meal at any Applebee’s in Massachusett Diners can get a limit of two free kids' meals with the purchase of each adult entrée throughout the day on Thursday, Oct. 31. Children age 12 and under can choose an entrée from Applebee’s Kids’ Menu as well as a side dish and beverage.

‘More must be done’ to check flow of illegal guns, congressional delegation tells ATF

Members of Massachusetts’s congressional delegation, including Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, are urging federal law enforcement officials to “ramp up” efforts to combat interstate gun trafficking in response to a recent spike in gun violence in Springfield.

818,000 people have voted early in Massachusetts so far. Here's a look at the numbers.

BOSTON - Early voting in Election 2024 is off to a strong start in Massachusetts. As of 4 p.m. Wednesday, the secretary of state's office said 818,904 people have already voted, 12 days before Election Day. That's 16.2 percent of registered voters in ...

Two weeks out: When is the last day to vote in the 2024 election?

You now have less than two weeks to cast a ballot for the 2024 Election. The presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will be at the top of the ticket,

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