The Rockport High baseball team began their Division 5 state tournament journey on Thursday evening at home against New ...

At 12-1 in league play, the Gloucester softball team cruised to a Northeastern Conference Lynch Division crown this spring.

The Gloucester High baseball team ruled the Northeastern Conference this spring — and this week, their players were rewarded for their incredible efforts.

BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell is siding with Harvard University in its escalating legal fight with ...

"We have the ability to respond to multiple emergencies in Rockport at once." ...

The Healey administration is overhauling Massachusetts' business and licensing regulations in an attempt to cut "red tape" ...

A state commission suspended the certification of a Manchester police officer last month and a single commissioner denied his appeal this week.

The City Council voted Tuesday to adopt a state law to allow the municipality to lower the speed limit in thickly settled and business districts to 25 mph without the rigmarole of getting permission ...

In spite of recent rains, Cape Ann municipalities continue to wrestle with water shortages — and at least one town official is reminding residents water restrictions continue to ...

Gloucester’s Lanes Coven Theater Co. will open its fifth season with the production of “Topdog/Underdog,” by Suzan-Lori Parks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning work.

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...

Volunteer instructor Bill Andrake, center, talks about how mud and clay can trap carbon dioxide as part of a two-day education program for fifth-graders from Essex and Manchester-by-the-Sea to learn ...