Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today. →
PLYMOUTH, Mass. — If a tree falls in the Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary, it doesn't matter if there's no one around. You can hear it anyway. That's because researchers have hidden dozens of wireless sensor nodes, microphones and cameras among →
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. Florence’s oceanwater, fresh water surges threaten Carolinas The storm, on the cusp on making landfall, has already inundated coastal →
LAWRENCE, Mass. — A series of gas explosions an official described as “Armageddon” killed a teenager, injured at least 10 other people and ignited fires in at least 39 homes in three communities north of Boston, forcing entire →
BOSTON — Boston’s Faneuil Hall has served as a home for civic rhetoric from the time colonists congregated to talk about freedom from the British. But the site known as the Cradle of Liberty is named after wealthy 18th century slave →
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today. →
ORLEANS, Mass. — Over 3,000 miles from the trenches and battlefields of the Western Front, where many hundreds of thousands had already died, residents of Orleans, Massachusetts, were enjoying a typical summer morning on July 21, 1918, waiting →
REVERE, Mass. — Three new bidders have stepped in with offers to buy the bankrupt manufacturer of Necco Wafers, Sweethearts and other iconic candies. There are now four offers for Massachusetts-based Necco, or New England Confectionery Co., →
WESTERVILLE — The text of Gov. John Kasich’s state of the state address as delivered on Wednesday: GOVERNOR KASICH: Well, I want to thank the General Assembly. Of course, my great friend, Cliff Rosenberger, and Larry Obhof, the Senate →
WORCESTER, Mass. — Who takes care of the unclaimed dead, the people who were homeless or estranged from family members, or who outlived all their kin, and left no assets behind? The answer is usually funeral homes that get reimbursed by state →