A heat advisory is in effect in Boston and several other Massachusetts communities through 7 p.m. on July 17. The National Weather Service warned of "dangerous heat and humidity" with heat indices ...

But perhaps the easiest starting point to understand the state’s housing problem is this: apartment buildings with four units or more can only be built, under current local zoning rules, on roughly 4 ...

A n Essex town which in modern day is so bustling with a huge population nearly got completely wiped out from a notorious disease. After the Black Death in the medieval era, the most notorious plague ...