Concord

A legal battle has been taking place for several years over whether a two-mile path is public property.

A New Hampshire state trooper who fatally shot a man at a psychiatric hospital in November shortly after the man killed a security guard was justified in using deadly force, the state attorney general said in a report Thursday. The trooper, Nathan Sleight, fired at John Madore on Nov. 17 after Madore fatally shot Bradley Haas, a state Department of…

New Hampshire State Police say an inmate escaped Tuesday and barricaded himself in a room with a knife in Concord before being arrested. The standoff began around 3 p.m. at the state office complex on Pleasant Street, where administrative offices are located in several buildings. Police were initially tight-lipped about what had occurred, initially saying only that the public should…

New Hampshire State Police say they responded to reports of a wrong-way driver on I-93 at around 3:30 a.m. on Sunday.

A man has died after being pulled from the water at Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. The Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday that it had responded to the drowning of a 62-year-old man from Boston’s Allston neighborhood. It is believed that he was snorkeling. Massachusetts State Police said they responded around 5:20 p.m. to reports of a...

MCI-Concord no longer has any inmates, and is in the process of being decommissioned. Come along for a tour.

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A historic prison in Massachusetts no longer has any prisoners behind its bars, state officials announced on Tuesday, marking the end of a long chapter for MCI Concord. Plans to close MCI Concord were first revealed in January of 2024, and were spurred by a declining statewide prison population as well as sky-high upkeep costs at the aging prison, which…

Archeologists say they’ve found musket balls fired in Concord during one of the first battles in the Revolutionary War nearly 250 years ago.

The beach at Massachusetts’ famed Walden Pond is almost completely underwater. And it might stay like that all summer. Walden Pond park officials said the El Niño year brought an extra 10 inches of rain, prompting the kettle pond to overflow and park officials to close down the overflow parking lot. The beach at Walden Pond will stay open throughout…

At a New Hampshire rally on the anniversary of the Dobbs decision that overturned the abortion protections of Roe V. Wade, advocates condemned the controversial firing of a teacher in Amherst. The teacher, who worked at the Regional Services and Education Center, a special needs school, was accused of taking a student for abortion services. The school would not share…

An abortion rights rally was held at the New Hampshire State House after a teacher’s controversial firing.

A large house went up in flames Tuesday afternoon.

A large home in Concord, Massachusetts, caught fire Tuesday afternoon, prompting a response from fire departments in a dozen communities. When firefighters arrived, flames were already shooting through the roof of the Bartkus Farm Road house, which the Concord Fire Department says is about 9,700 square feet. “Coming up the driveway, I saw a huge black cloud coming from the…

[This story first appeared on Boston Restaurant Talk.] [May 31 update: This article was updated to reflect the fact that a possible Burlington location is only being looked at and has not been confirmed.]  An award-winning Connecticut pizzeria that recently expanded into the Greater Boston area and is currently working on another location will also be opening two more outlets…

After Concord, Massachusetts, dismissed the idea of having its first-ever building named after a Black person, some families are struggling to understand why.

A worker was injured after falling into a hole at a home that is being demolished in Concord, Massachusetts, on Tuesday morning. Concord fire officials said they received a call around 11:20 a.m. Tuesday to an address on Bruce Road for a report of a fallen construction worker. When they arrived, they found a man who was injured and trapped…

Hollywood actress Ashley Judd was in Massachusetts Wednesday to fight against a controversial airport expansion.

Minute Man National Historical Park, Walden Pond and other historic places near Concord, Massachusetts, are threatened by the planned expansion of a private airfield, according to a major preservation group. The National Trust for Historic Preservation on Wednesday named the group of landmark sites, which also include Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House other areas of national significance, as one...

Twenty people were arrested during a protest at Lawrence G. Hanscom Field in Bedford, Massachusetts, on Saturday morning, police said.

An antisemitic “Zoombombing” incident interrupted a town meeting in Concord, Massachusetts, last week, according to town manager Kerry Lafleur, the latest in a series of these incidents. The incident occurred at a regularly-scheduled meeting of the town Finance Committee on March 14. The meetings, which are open to the public, are hybrid, meaning committee members and interested town residents are…