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🌤️Getting sunnier, with highs in the 60s.

Customers kept on hold, delayed first benefit payments and mismanaged complaints — these are some of the issues the state auditor discovered in an audit of the Department of Unemployment Assistance that was released Monday.

Health care advocates are warning immigrants and community members about upcoming changes to eligibility for health coverage through MassHealth.The changes are the result of the Trump administrations’ One Big Beautiful Bill, signed in July 2025, and are u…

Police in Haverhill are warning residents to keep an eye out for coyotes after a person was attacked Friday night, but state wildlife officials say the coyote population across Massachusetts remains stable.Dave Wattles, a black bear and furbearer biologist

As costs for youth sports are rising, the burdens being placed on parents and families are growing.

A jury on Monday convicted a Vermont man of attempted murder in the shootings of three Palestinian college students who were walking near his home, rejecting an insanity defense rooted in his claims that he was acting on orders from the CIA and Mossad.Jas…

At his dairy farm in Dracut, Warren Shaw can’t avoid paying record-high diesel prices.He relies on diesel tractors to harvest hay and corn he grows for his cows.

New England journalism organizations are condemning the Trump administration’s decision to bar three news outlets access to the White House and the property.President Trump made the announcement to ban CNN, MS NOW, and Politico on Friday, and accusing them

September 21, 2026☁️The final day of summer will be cloudy and cool, in the mid-60s, with early-evening rain possible.

On a warm day in August, Bonnie Zampino spoke to a small crowd gathered on the Orleans Village Green detailing what she says was abuse she suffered at a nearby religious community.The 57-year-old woman had traveled from West Virginia to tell her story — a…

The former chair of the state’s Cannabis Control Commission is criticizing this year’s major overhauls of the commission, saying it’s now “less efficient.”

Next time you’re heading to your gate at Logan Airport, you may hear a new voice making announcements.MassPort is looking for the new voice of Logan Airport, and held an open casting call Thursday at Terminal A in hopes of finding it.

In a recent morning at Chelmsford Immigration Court, dozens of immigrants and attorneys crowded into a room, and more appeared by videoconference.

Thirty years ago, media mogul Oprah Winfrey launched what became a cultural phenomenon: Oprah’s Book Club.

🌫️ Fog turns to sun later in the day.

In the first years after the Revolutionary War, the question of who could become a citizen rarely came up on the new country’s soil.

For decades since it was created in the 1970s, the Endangered Species Act has been interpreted to prohibit any killing of an endangered species, even if unintentional.

On Friday, the federal government will take a harder line on green card applicants based on public benefits they have received or are receiving.The Trump administration will allow officers with U.S.

Starting this month, the Boston Public Health Commission will hold free vaccine clinics across the city, offering flu and COVID-19 vaccinations to ensure that they are accessible to residents who face barriers to getting vaccinated.

Roughly three-quarters of spending on GLP-1 drugs in Massachusetts was for weight loss in 2025, but spending in 2026 is expected to “drop significantly” due to changes in insurance coverage, according to the Health Policy Commission.Between 2025 and the f…

☀️More sun is on deck for today, reaching the upper 70s, and a chance of rain 🌧️ later in the day.

“Due process for who?

The City of Boston has nixed its report looking at the city’s ties to slavery after concerns arose around the lead researcher’s academic practices.Kerri Greenidge, former Tufts professor, was the lead researcher on the reparations report.

With termination of temporary protected status for Haitians on July 27, immigrant communities across the country are left asking: “What’s next?”

UPDATE: The Salem Zoning Board of Appeals voted unanimously to uphold the revocation of the permit for a building it deemed to be a data center at Shetland Park.

The Salem Zoning Board of Appeals is expected to vote Wednesday night on an appeal by a real estate company that would allow it to build a 12,000 square foot data center in the city’s office complex, known as Shetland Park.The New York-based real estate c…

A national organization that advocates for free speech is warning that the push to remove Macklemore from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour could violate the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of speech.Macklemore said Monday that he was removed from the tour a…

After months of maintaining he doesn’t even remember the interaction at issue, Brockton Mayor Moises Rodrigues will be arraigned on Sept. 28 on a charge of assault and battery of a then-high school student.

School officials in Springfield, Massachusetts, said Tuesday night that the district’s data has been breached, a result of a cyber attack around Labor Day.

September 16, 2026☀️The sun is back, with highs in the upper 70s.

Ed Sheeran’s tour of North and South America was plunged into chaos Tuesday when four of his supporting acts abruptly quit in solidarity with the rapper Macklemore, who was dropped for making pro-Palestinian comments onstage at the urging of Robert Kraft,…

Francesca Gino is the first professor in Harvard’s long history to lose her tenure.The former Harvard Business School professor built a reputation studying honesty and dishonesty, decision-making and ethics, workplace dynamics and productivity.She became…

Nobody could have imagined that the Celtics would have traded Jaylen Brown — the 2024 NBA Finals MVP — to the rival Philadelphia 76ers in a deal that netted veteran All-Star Paul George and several future draft picks.And George says he gets the lingering…

A federal judge in Boston has stalled the Trump administration’s plan to impose a four-year limit on student visas, putting the proposed restriction on hold just a day before it was set to take effect.

Roughly 1,300 union workers remain off the job at Encore Boston Harbor in Everett as the strike enters its second week.During an Everett City Council meeting on Monday night, Everett Mayor Robert Van Campen passed a resolution in support of the union memb…

New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald announced his resignation from the bench on Tuesday, effective immediately, after being accused of violating the state’s judicial code of conduct for his role in orchestrating a payout to a top al…

In the wake of the Lindsay Clancy trial that sparked nationwide conversations about maternal mental healthcare, Gov.

In this edition of Wicked Strange, local folklore author and host of the New England Legends podcast Jeff Belanger tells us the story of early 20th century author Edith Wharton’s haunted mansion in the Berkshires, The Mount.

☀️Sunny and cooler, with highs in the 60s.

Democratic-led states and cities filed lawsuits Monday challenging a federal rule set to begin Friday that they say gives President Donald Trump’s administration broad discretion to deny green cards to immigrants who rely on public assistance for food, he…

Some Worcester residents and activists say the police department’s response to a recent car crash involving a Worcester city councilor underscores their longstanding concerns about a lack of police accountability and transparency.

Rapper Macklemore said Monday that he’d been barred from performing at Gillette Stadium at Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s behest, and that Kraft had led a successful effort to bar him from other venues as well.As a result, Macklemore wrote on Instagram, he…

When millions of gallons of sewage overflow spewed into the Merrimack River in late June and early July, the shellfish industry on the North Shore took a big hit.The state issued a 12-day emergency closure for fisheries in a large part of the North Shore…