The state Senate passed legislation in a 38-2 vote Thursday that would ban students from using their phones during the school day.

The state’s deadliest blaze in more than four decades has highlighted the lack of regulations governing assisted-living ...

Members of a commission working on new regulations that would change the way assisted living facilities are run will delay ...

A Massachusetts grandmother who died in the Gabriel House fire was remembered for her religious faith and "for her warm smile ...

Fire engines or ladder trucks should be staffed with four members. In Massachusetts, the average is about two firefighters.

A short-staffed Fall River Fire Department struggled in the Gabriel House fire. But most Mass. fire departments are not staffed to proper standards.

In the wake of a tragic assisted-living facility fire in Fall River that left 10 people dead and dozens injured,<a ...

The firefighters greeted each other with handshakes and back slaps. But they soon shifted to mournful recollections of what ...

"I'm proud of us, everybody who was there. One death it too much to handle," Fall River Lt. Paul Machado said.

Less than two weeks after the fire that killed 10 residents of a Massachusetts assisted living facility, the Fall River ...