Massachusetts

It’s that time of year, with sicknesses making the rounds through the community, and one Massachusetts health care system is stepping up its precautions. “I’ve been sick for three weeks,” said Bradley Silsbee of Lynn. “Pretty much everyone I know is sick or recovering from being sick,” added Katie Callahan of Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood. Mass General Brigham says...

Mass General Brigham says staff will now be wearing masks when in direct contact with patients amid a spike in respiratory viruses.

A FedEx driver was robbed by two men while delivering a package.

Lowell city leaders say locker rooms are closed and people are getting stuck in elevators at the new gym inside the city’s high school.

President-elect Donald Trump’s comments about offshore wind farm activity in Massachusetts have struck a chord with others who have claimed they pollute and kill sea mammals, including endangered whales. But local scientists and conservationists are pushing back against those claims, saying there is no hard evidence supporting them. Humpbacks, minkes and critically endangered North Atlantic right whales have been...

President-elect Donald Trump’s comments about Massachusetts’ offshore wind farms have been met with criticism from local scientists and conservationists.

As Southern California grapples with intense flames, scientists in Worcester, Massachusetts, are researching how wildfires spread in an effort to mitigate the damage that they cause. The work focusing on the generation and movement of embers is happening at Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Fire Protection Engineering Department, using a wind tunnel large enough for a person to walk into. “We...

Lawrence Mayor Brian DePeña raised eyebrows when he named William Castro as the city’s acting police chief in October 2023. Castro was the mayor’s chief of staff and previously worked two decades a correctional officer for the Essex County Sheriff’s Department. “There was great concern considering his background wasn’t in policing,” said Chris Ryan, president of the New England...

Lawrence’s provisional police chief, a political ally of the mayor, is being paid six figures despite the state’s oversight board suspending his credentials last March.

Police in Harvard, Massachusetts, say a FedEx driver was robbed Thursday afternoon by two men who threatened violence. The robbery happened on Stow Road just before 12:45 p.m., Harvard Police Chief James Babu said in a statement shared on Facebook. The driver was delivering a package to a home when a vehicle pulled up alongside his van. Two masked men…

A woman was rescued from the water of the Cape Cod Canal on Thursday afternoon, Bourne police said, in what was not believed to have been a criminal incident. It wasn’t immediately clear how the woman got into the water — temperatures were below freezing across the area Thursday — but police said the 31-year-old from Wareham was pulled out…

Healey administration officials on Thursday sought to sooth anxieties around the incoming Trump administration and potential federal threats to health care for people with disabilities. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to extend his tax cuts when he takes office again this year, and some conservatives have proposed cuts to Medicaid to reduce federal spending. Medicaid costs taxpayers about $800 billion…

A 66-year-old man died after he was struck by two motor vehicles while crossing the street in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on Tuesday night. Shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday, a man was struck by a Buick Enclave and an Infinity QX30 while walking across Broadway in Lawrence near the McDonald’s restaurant, the Essex District Attorney’s Office said. Lawrence police, fire and...

A data breach is impacting school districts across the country, including several here in Massachusetts, and this could mean names, addresses, medical records and even social security numbers were compromised.

A data breach is impacting school districts across the country, including several here in Massachusetts, and this could mean names, addresses, medical records and even social security numbers were compromised — something local cybersecurity experts say is unsettling. “It seems like it was caused by a stolen credential from one of their administrative people, and this you know, this shouldn’t…

Wellesley, Needham and Holliston, Massachusetts, all say their districts have been affected by this data breach.

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Months after Steward Health Care’s bankruptcy forced the closure of Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer, first responders in the area are calling for help from Massachusetts leaders. Over a dozen fire chiefs from communities in the area say their emergency medical services are on the verge of collapsing. They signed a letter to Gov. Maura Healey last month,...

As wildfires continue to spread through Los Angeles County, some from Massachusetts now living in California are faced with the likelihood of evacuations. “Our bags are packed and we’re ready to go somewhere else if we have to,” said Justin Bitensky. The native of Hopkinton, Massachusetts, now lives in Calabasas, a city impacted by the wildfires. “As a dad...

Elisabeth Foley, formerly of Mansfield, Massachusetts, wants a myoelectric hand, but her insurance company says her policy excludes such devices.

A former Mansfield resident lost her hand in a shark attack, and she is fighting with her insurance company over a prosthetic that could change her life.