Nearly three dozen Massachusetts beaches are closed as temperatures soared into the high 90s on one of the summer’s most ...

Fired Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor’s text messages will be preserved for at least another month.

Through March of last school year, nearly one in five Massachusetts students were chronically absent, meaning they had missed ...

Smoke from Canadian wildfires pushed into New England Saturday, bringing hazy skies and unhealthy air quality to some spots, including Boston.

There are still more than 100 prizes worth $100,000 and two $15 million grand prizes in an almost year-old $30 scratch ticket ...

A Plymouth man has been sentenced to prison for cyberstalking over a dozen Massachusetts women across 16 years.

E-cigarettes have been drawing in young people for years and new research finds teenagers who vape have higher rates of ...

BOSTON — Massachusetts housing costs are continuing to skyrocket, with the median price of a single-family home rising to $687,500 in June, according to a new report.

A Massachusetts college is considered as having among the most beautiful college campuses in the country. Last month, Travel ...

The Massachusetts schools rated five stars on this year's list are Babson College, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Williams College. Colleges rated five stars scored ...

A big problem with all this is that taxpayers don’t learn of such expenditures until after the fact, and often after the Herald does some digging and puts in FOIA requests. It’s par for the course in ...

It’s a sad state of affairs when the governor and the commonwealth’s health-insurance oversight agency can claim victory by ...