Kent County sheriff's deputies asked residents to avoid an area of West Main Street in Lowell while police investigate.

A report released in January by the Toxic Use Reduction Institute of Massachusetts’s, hosted at UMass Lowell, identified a ...

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A promising alternative to natural gas has been taking root in Massachusetts — underground pipes and wells that tap into ...

NEWS FROM THE ISSUE OF NOV. 11, 2004 The Litchfield Planning Commission approved a zoning change that will allow the First Baptist Church to construct a new church at County Road 34 ...

The Lowell Friends of the Flat met on Monday night with the expectation of hearing from a third company that specializes in eradicating invasive weeds from waterways. The non-profit had previously ...

Unionized city firefighters, accompanied by relatives and friends, held an informational picket aimed at keeping the fire department’s dispatch center at 60 Bodwell St.

The bad news for Spaulding wrestling this past weekend was that illnesses forced the Tide to scrap plans to compete in an ...

The city of Flagstaff has taken big steps to preserve the clarity of its night sky. Find out the best ways to experience the ...

Dozens of communities are demanding marijuana businesses pay up thousands of dollars annually, years after legislators did ...

In a win for open space in the Merrimack Valley, the sale of Rollie’s Christ­mas Tree farm on Varnum Avenue heralds a new ...

Right before the robbery, a Kansas City, Kansas, elementary school went into lockdown for a threat call that was later determined to be "unsubstantiated." ...