MassDEP and local fire departments have certain limits on open burning, including bonfires and in fire pits, in Massachusetts.

A five-alarm fire at a Massachusetts assisted living community in which nine people died and at least 30 were injured is a “realistic reminder” for senior living providers to make sure they have ...

Indiana Fever forward Aliyah Boston was honored with her very own day: Aliyah Boston Day, on July 14 in Massachusetts.

In May 2021, the people of Nahant voted decisively — 647 to 271 — to use eminent domain to preserve East Point. This wasn’t a ...

Former Worcester firefighter Joseph A. Casello, who retired from the department and moved to Florida, where he entered politics, has died after suffering a heart attack. He was 73. Casello, a Democrat ...

The owner of the assisted-living facility in Fall River where nine died in a fire also owns an adult foster care business in ...

Police say a lizard is still on the loose in Webster, Massachusetts, after escaping through a window last Friday at a home ...

New information is expected be revealed as to what caused the deadly fire​ at the Gabriel House assisted living home in Fall ...

The Bristol County DA’s office released the previously withheld name of one of the 10 victims killed in the fire at Gabriel House assisted living.