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One person has been taken to the hospital following a stabbing in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood on Tuesday night. Police responded to a report of a stabbing on Woodward Park Street shortly before 9p.m. According to police, the person was taken to a nearby hospital with non life-threatening injuries. Authorities say one person was taken int...

A man says he and his family were harassed on a recent trip back home to the Boston area for being of Indian descent.

Political turnover will continue in Newton, Massachusetts, next year after Mayor Ruthanne Fuller announced Tuesday she would not seek a third term. Fuller, who spent eight years as a city councilor before winning election as the city’s first female mayor in 2017, announced in her latest newsletter that she will not pursue reelection and will ...

The Board of Higher Education is considering allowing colleges and universities in Massachusetts to offer three-year bachelor’s degrees, reducing the typical 120-credit requirement. The proposed measure aims to provide students with a faster, more affordable path to a degree, though members of the board wondered Tuesday about the trade-offs. To ear...

We drove around the Boston area Tuesday, ahead of the first winter storm of the season, and found plenty of anticipation. Snow is already on the ground at the Nashoba Valley Ski Area in Westford. “The weather can do just about anything, but we always hope for the best,” said Al Fletcher, of Nashoba Valley. With Christmas several weeks away,…...

“Hopefully, once everyone gets the gist of, ‘Alright, no more running past the stop sign of the school bus,’ we won’t have to worry about it anymore,” Boston City Councilor Enrique Pepén said

As the appeal of her firing inches through the court system, former Cannabis Control Commission chair Shannon O’Brien is pressing on multiple fronts to get information about her tenure at the CCC and Treasurer Deborah Goldberg’s decision to fire her into the public record. The Supreme Judicial Court last month kicked O’Brien&#8217...

A 14-year-old dog was taken from her front yard in Swampscott, Massachusetts, Tuesday morning before being found, police said, saying she’ll be reunited with her owners. Investigators released photos of a man and a woman seen on camera taking the 14-year-old hound mix, Trudy, from the home on Bates Road around 10 a.m. They were driving a whit...

We’re staying cold and mainly dry for Tuesday evening through Wednesday. Wind chills will have temperatures feeling 5-10 degrees cooler than the actual temperature overnight, with lows in the upper 20s. Wednesday, highs rise into the low 40s with winds shifting in from the southeast ahead of our next system, which enters by the evening. This ...

The designers of the planned new Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Lahey Health hospital gave a first look at the building’s design at a recent meeting of the Boston Planning and Development Agency.

The Piscataqua River Bridge connecting New Hampshire and Maine via Interstate 95 has reopened after a shutdown for a police situation Tuesday afternoon. New Hampshire State Police said in a social media post at 1:50 p.m. that I-95 was closed in both directions at the state line near the bridge for an “active police situation.” Around 3:...

Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson is involved in a federal investigation, sources tell NBC10 Boston. Federal authorities came through Boston City Hall this fall looking into Fernandes Anderson, the sources say. The nature of this probe is still unclear. NBC10 Boston Political Reporter Matt Prichard reports it seems several on the counc...

Flames could be seen shooting from the roof of a building in Brockton, Massachusetts, on Tuesday. Firefighters confirmed they were working the fire on Otis Street. Pictures from the scene show that the windows of the building were boarded up. Fire officials on scene said they suspected the fire may have been started by squatters. This is a breaking...