Claire Thornton

Dozens of beaches in Massachusetts, including some in Boston, were closed on Thursday because of high bacteria levels or, on the North Shore, overflows caused by the Haverhill sewer main break, which has now been halted.

If you're willing to do anything to beat the heat in the Boston area on Thursday, consider hopping on a flight to Miami, where the forecasted high temperature for July 2 is nearly 10 degrees cooler.

One juvenile was wounded and another was grazed by a bullet in a shooting Monday outside a Springfield high school, police said.

An unusually large number of lion's mane jellyfish, one of the largest jellyfish species on earth, have been drifting through Massachusetts waters for the past month in the biggest phenomenon of its kind since 2020, experts say.

Frank Ribaudo, a founder of Boston's Club Café, a thriving center of LGBTQ nightlife and community for decades, died Tuesday at his home in Florida at the age of 81, his husband said.

A motorcyclist missing since July 4 was found dead Thursday after a crash off Route 2 in Shelburne, NH, authorities said.

A Massachusetts teen was seriously injured Monday after jumping from a waterfall in New Hampshire's White Mountains.

Bostonians have been nursing beers and stiff drinks at J.J. Foley's Cafe in the South End for more than a century, rubbing elbows with politicians, cops, and reporters, the city's best stories and secrets shared until last call.

The skies in downtown Boston were a hazy yellow for the second day in a row on Wednesday, as more smoke from wildfires in Canada blew into eastern Massachusetts and settled closer to the ground.

Katie Yelle and her friends arrived at the Public Garden Wednesday morning to pose for photos in front of the lagoon and nearby willows.