Massachusetts

Lesley Albert helped plant a tree in her yard nearly 60 years ago. It will now stand in Rockefeller Center in her honor. Here’s the heartwarming story of how it happened.

Video shows a scaffolding plank falling inches from a person walking into Boston’s South Station last week.

Authorities announced an arrest Wednesday in a nearly 46-year-old double murder in western Massachusetts. Timothy Scott Joley, 71, of Clearwater, Florida, was arrested for the 1978 murders of Theresa Marcoux and Mark Harnish, Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni said at a news conference. The bodies of Marcoux, 18, of East Longmeadow, and Harnish, 20, of South Dennis, were found outside...

A Massachusetts Air National Guard member who pleaded guilty to leaking highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts spoke after winning a third term on Tuesday.

The 17-year-old student and social studies teacher at odds over the issue both took the stand in federal court Tuesday.

Two Nantucket fishermen made a life-saving catch this weekend, saving a frantic fellow fisherman clinging to what was left of his capsized boat.

The purple holiday pail is “illustrated with a sweet Halloween motif” of round-shaped, costumed creatures.

Editor’s note: Some readers might find the images included in this story disturbing. Orleans police shared three photos of the shark on Facebook on Tuesday, showing the dead shark on the back of a flatbed truck. “Not one of our typical calls for service,” the department said. “Not is it one for our local duty tow, Nauset Recovery. But, as...

Ethel Kennedy, the widow of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and matriarch to the dynastic Kennedy family, suffered a stroke last week.

Kennedy family matriarch Ethel Kennedy is recovering after she suffered a stroke, her family said Tuesday.

Ethel Kennedy, the widow of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke last week, family said Tuesday.

The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded Monday to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA.

A woman accused of operating a high-end brothel network with wealthy and prominent clients in Massachusetts and the Washington, D.C., suburbs pleaded guilty in federal court Friday.

Dozens of horses are safe after a fire in a barn at the Big E and the cause of the fire is under investigation. Officials said the fire was reported in the C Barn after the Big E closed on Friday. Firefighters said they arrived to the area and found a working fire in the barn around 11:45 p.m. All…

Nine people have now died as a result of the outbreak, which the agency said is now the largest listeria outbreak in the U.S. since 2011. Fifty-seven people have been hospitalized.

Police say a teenager fished a smoke grenade out of Beaver Brook in Dracut, Massachusetts, on Tuesday morning.

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy says he’s lucky to be alive after he found himself in his boat adrift with no power off Nantucket on Monday.

Thirty-three beaches across Massachusetts are closed ahead of the Fourth of July holiday due to elevated bacteria levels. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health provides an updated dashboard of beach closures, which is updated at 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. every day during the beach season. As of Wednesday morning, the list of closures included beaches in Ashby, Ashland, Boston,…

“It’s a reminder that some of the most meaningful, beautiful moments are ones that unfold in unexpected ways.”