Miss Massachusetts USA 2024 pageant winner Melissa Sapini was identified as Hudson's companion at the Nantucket Christmas party in December, where they had a tense encounter with Bill Belichick's ex Linda Holliday.

A Massachusetts teacher is accused of assaulting children at a preschool, according to officials who say she pushed kids to the ground and slammed children into tables, chairs and walls.

Rhode Island's top legal chief announced Wednesday that a Massachusetts construction company has agreed to pay $11 million to settle criminal charges that it illegally dumped thousands of tons of contaminated fill in the Ocean State's Capitol city during a highway construction project.

Court documents show that last month, the dog's owner made a plea deal with the state that would relinquish her custody of the dogs in exchange for the 23 charges being dropped. That deal made the 15 dogs at Baypath eligible for adoption nearly one year after they walked through the door.

With two months still left in the fiscal year, the voter-approved surtax has generated $2.6 billion in revenue, Healey administration officials said, already topping what the state collected all of last year.

An illegal immigrant arrested in Boston for allegedly peddling “poison” fentanyl while armed is also wanted in his home country for gun running, and appears to be part of the

The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted 8-2 May 20 to advance new regulations from Gov. Maura T. Healey's administration that will require the state's 29 career technical education districts to use the lottery system starting in the 2026-27 school year.

A wind advisory was issued by the National Weather Service on Wednesday at 1:27 p.m. valid for Thursday between 2 p.m. and 11 p.m. for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Plymouth counties.

The three Massachusetts high school seniors killed in a deadly crash during their Florida spring break last month were barreling down the road at a frightening 110 mph, in the dark, before the fatal collision,

Areas along the Massachusetts coast are bracing for heavy rain and wind as a late-season nor'easter moves in Thursday.

Trump-era grant terminations halted hundreds of millions in science research — with ripple effects across New England.