A push by the state Legislature to reduce single-use plastics across the state, cutting down on the use of straws, carryout ...

One website is naming the best secret beaches across the U.S., adding three Massachusetts locations to its national list.

Gov. Maura Healey is touting a new plan to borrow billions of dollars to harden the state’s roads, bridges and other infrastructure to blunt the impacts of climate ...

This complex substation project under Kendall Square in Cambridge, Mass. brings together a dozen different disciplines.

In many states across the United States, the loosening of fireworks laws has extended the season people can set them off ...

Massachusetts state baseball state playoff action has moved to the regional rounds in all five classifications; follow every game and every bracket in real time right here with High School On SI ...

Among states with failing grades, Rhode Island had the lowest grade, at 12.2, followed by Massachusetts at 12.6. New York, Hawaii, California, Connecticut and Oregon also received failing grades.

A total of seven states received the lowest grade of F on the new report card: Oregon, Connecticut, California, Hawaii, New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.

36 million adults in the U.S. smoke cigarettes, or about an average of 12.6% of the population in each state. Here are the states that have the most and least smokers.

Scored on a scale from 0 to 500, Massachusetts had average scores of 246 and 283 for math in fourth and eighth grade, respectively. The national averages were 237 and 272 ...

Massachusetts is expected to get several inches of snow on Wednesday. See the latest forecast map 'She really could have been anything': 25 years later, Molly Bish's family reflects on her dreams ...