John Moroney

Extremely dry weather conditions have brought hundreds of brush fires to Massachusetts in recent weeks

A police investigation is underway in Quincy, Massachusetts, after a report that someone was stabbed on Friday morning.

After a 65-year-old woman was fatally stabbed multiple times at a Boston park Saturday afternoon, people in the community reflected on her death and on how safe Ramsay Park is.

Nine people were arrested on drug, child sex abuse and other charges in a sweep involving gang investigators on Boston's North Shore and on Nantucket Thursday, federal prosecutors said.

Rather than shopping at malls on Friday, some families in Massachusetts used the day after Thanksgiving to go shopping for the perfect Christmas tree

49-year-old Jeremy Cole -- a husband, father of four and an Endicott College police sergeant -- was killed in a wrong-way crash on I-95 in Newbury early on Thanksgiving morning

The cold weather has arrived, marking the official start of the home heating season. It’s a constant battle to keep energy costs down in the winter, and this year is no exception. Albert Choy uses natural gas to heat his home. In the winter, he spends and about $500 a month and doesn’t anticipate this year will be much different….

We drove around the Boston area Tuesday, ahead of the first winter storm of the season , and found plenty of anticipation.

In a stunning settlement, a newspaper started in the 19th century will fold after a defamation lawsuit from the mayor of Everett, Massachusetts. The Everett Leader Herald, whose masthead reads that it was established in 1885, is set to cease publication this week. Mayor Carlo DeMaria says the newspaper agreed to that condition, and to pay him $1.1 million, to avoid a trial next month. DeMaria says the newspaper tried to destroy his reputation to serve its own financial interests. “It wasn’t just dishonest, it was corrupt,” the mayor said at a news conference Monday. He says owner Matthew Philbin…

Jonathan Paluzzi of Kingston, Massachusetts, has been sentenced to five to seven years in prison after killing his dog, Brutus, earlier this year