Some call for emergency action and eminent domain to prevent Steward Health Care from shuttering the Dorchester hospital.

A bill up for a vote Tuesday in the state Senate includes liability protections for harm reduction sites, if cities and towns ...

Boston has launched an ambitious project to help small, local, minority-owned developers build affordable housing on ...

Under the new policy, people will not be allowed to stay more than five days in the state’s four overflow shelter sites, ...

Worcester requires people put their trash in the yellow trash bags that the vending machine and other local retailers sell.

Sam Appell-Waterman, 13, loves doing gymnastics. But he lives in Iowa City, Iowa, and twice in the three years that he’s been ...

This undated file photo released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows corals on Mytilus Seamount off ...

All the rites of passage for a teenager were available to Frederick Richard while growing up in Stoughton. Football games.

More than 40 beaches across Massachusetts are closed over the weekend, from Puffers Pond in Amherst to Washing Pond on ...

Whilst preparing for the arrival of her father and sister, Bella is stunned when Cecil arrives and asks her for a divorce. A ...

Gun violence activists celebrated the law, while Second Amendment advocates argued parts of it will not hold up in court.

This year, for the first time in the history of the Olympics, there will be an equal number of men and women vying for the ...