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Police are investigating an early-morning shooting in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood. Boston EMS said they responded to the 700 block of Cummins Highway for a reported shooting shortly before 2 a.m. and transported one person to a local hospital. Their condition was not immediately known. Boston police are investigating the shooting.

A long-awaited goal to bring a soccer stadium to Everett, Massachusetts, is in the final stretch — it’s included in an economic development bill that’s being voted on Thursday. We’ve got a rare November formal session for the Legislature here at the State House. Both the Senate and House are expected to vote on that $4 billion eco...

Schools remain closed in Beverly, Gloucester and Marblehead as the teachers strike continues. But now the school districts are taking their fight from the picket line to the courtroom. It is illegal in Massachusetts to engage in a teacher strike, so all three of the districts have taken their respective teachers unions to court to hold them in cont...

Brace yourself! We’re tracking another cold start Thursday, but some warmer weather is on the way soon. We’re starting the day with temperatures in the 20s and 30s in Greater Boston. It’s sweater weather indeed!   As we move through the afternoon, high temperatures will rise into the mid 40s under mostly sunny skies. The day will be breez...

A constellation of transportation planners, elected officials and community groups embarked Wednesday on a campaign to think about a massive project coming into focus on the horizon: replacing the Tobin Bridge. Over the next 18 months, a state working group will examine options to succeed the 74-year-old bridge that connects Chelsea and Boston&#821...

A week after Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly embraced Auditor Diana DiZoglio’s ability to audit the Legislature, Beacon Hill’s top Democrats said Wednesday they are mulling over unspecified potential alterations to the voter law. House Speaker Ron Mariano and Senate President Karen Spilka, who have long resisted DiZoglio’s mis...

President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Rep. Matt Gaetz to become the nation’s attorney general was met with shock Wednesday, including from fellow Republicans. Massachusetts’ Democratic attorney general was among those highly critical of the pick. Trump announced Wednesday that Gaetz, a firebrand lawmaker from Florida, was hi...

Renowned Boston chef Barbara Lynch and her restaurants owe more than $1.6 million in unpaid taxes, the city said in a civil lawsuit filed Wednesday. The city filed the lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court in an effort to recover the tax money, which is still accruing by about $367 every day, according to its complaint. “Ms. Lynch has failed, dir...

The Karen Read trial put a lot of eyes on Massachusetts law enforcement. Now, an author who researches homicides in the state is sharing her thoughts. True crime writer Susan Zalkind says the case exposed something about Massachusetts State Police she has suspected for years. Despite the agency’s 94% homicide solve rate between 2019 and 2023,...

City councilors in Brockton, Massachusetts, voted to crack down on homeless encampments Tuesday after a heated public meeting. In a 7-to-4 vote, they approved a new ordinance that would fine people camping on public property $200 a day. The council also voted to punish loitering in public places with a $50 fine. During the meeting, some councilors ...

It’s a long-awaited goal that’s finally taking a step forward — but Massachusetts lawmakers’ agreement to remove a zoning restriction on a former factory in Everett doesn’t mean a Kraft family-funded stadium for the New England Revolution will crop up tomorrow. State Sen. Sal DiDomenico has long championed the Everett projec...

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Officers investigated two businesses in Everett, Massachusetts, and a residence in nearby Malden on Wednesday as part of a prostitution investigation, police said. No one was arrested, but four people were interviewed, Everett police said in a statement. Everett Police Chief Paul Strong shared more details to NBC10 Boston, saying the investigation ...