Alex Megerle

At Blue Hill Observatory and Science Center, a weather station 15 miles south of Boston, staff and volunteers have been using many of the same tools to monitor the weather since it opened in 1885

At Blue Hill Observatory and Science Center, a weather station 15 miles south of Boston, staff and volunteers have been using many of the same tools to monitor the weather since it opened in 1885

At Blue Hill Observatory and Science Center, a weather station 15 miles south of Boston, staff and volunteers have been using many of the same tools to monitor the weather since it opened in 1885

MILTON, Mass. — Perched in a tower atop a hill, Matthew Douglas climbs a staircase and emerges from a hatch on the roof, where a heavy glass ball in a

of 13 Amanda Joly, right, gives a tour to Naomi Jang, left, and Miles Abel, center, at the Blue Hill Observatory and Science Center, Saturday, March 14, 2026, in Milton, Mass.

Falmouth’s next town clerk will officially no longer be elected. On Monday, Governor Maura T. Healey signed a Special Act, amending the town charter to change the town clerk to

A bill allowing the town to reimburse homeowners for certain grinder pump costs associated with future sewer expansion projects has cleared the state Legislature and the desk of Governor Maura T.

The Mashpee Economic Development and Industrial Committee recommended that Island Pickle developer and owner William D. Russell fill its commercial vacancy at its Tuesday, July 28, meeting.

If you’ve ever strolled through New York City and felt like there were a lot of cats strutting the streets, you weren’t wrong. No one knows exactly how many felines wander New York, but it’s a lot. Bideawee, a regional animal shelter, says tens of thousands of stray and feral cats live in the city’s […]

Muhammad Ali Nawaz didn’t expect to see so many cats. Nawaz, a wildlife ecologist at Qatar University, had set out to survey Qatar for the sand cat, a tiny, seldom-studied felid that lives in deserts across Southwest and Central Asia, northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Though there were anecdotal reports of the species in […]