The Latest Breaking News from Massachusetts

Labor organizers at a Trader Joe’s store in Massachusetts will find out Thursday if there is enough support among employees to form the chain’s first union

Tribes in South Dakota are working with a rural Massachusetts museum to return hundreds of items believed to have been taken from ancestors massacred at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890

A humpback whale has been filmed breaching and crashing down on the bow of a small fishing boat off the coast of Plymouth, Massachusetts, last Sunday with fortunately no injuries

BOSTON — Massachusetts environmental officials on Sunday are warning residents about potentially unhealthy air quality, as the heat wave peaks with apparent temperatures possibly surging into the 100s across the Boston area.

The trial for a commercial truck driver charged with causing the deaths of seven motorcycle club members in New Hampshire is about to start more than three years after the 2019 crash that devastated the region’s close-knit biker community and exposed flaws in state driver record keeping

Massachusetts health officials on Thursday reported more than 10,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases over the past week, another virus uptick as the highly infectious BA.5 variant spreads across the region.

President Joe Biden’s speech at a former coal-fired power plant in Massachusetts this week led to widespread claims on social media that he made a significant announcement not about climate change, but about his health

On July 20, 2022, President Joe Biden traveled to a former coal-burning power plant in Massachusetts that is being converted into a manufacturing site for offshore wind power equipment. Biden announced millions of dollars in funding for climate change measures, including upgrading infrastructure, weatherizing buildings and installing cooling in homes.…

President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced modest new steps to combat climate change and promised more robust action to come, saying, “This is an emergency and I will look at it that way.”