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Schools are closed in two Massachusetts cities on Friday as teachers go on strike. Teachers in Beverly and Gloucester plan to picket as they continue to negotiate a new contract. Well, they’ve been in negotiations without a contract since February – and have reached an impasse. So instead of being in the classrooms today, teachers will be picketing outside these…

A nationwide investigation is underway into a series of racist spam text messages sent to people in the days after this week’s election. Some students in Massachusetts reported receiving the texts.

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There is a red flag warning across Massachusetts on Friday, as the dry, warm conditions are fueling brush fires across the state. Several communities are dealing with brush fires right now, and new ones are continuing to pop up in the central and western parts of the state. Crews have been working tirelessly to contain the blazes, but it’s...

The holiday season can be the most difficult time of the year for many people. Dr. Ximena Sanchez-Samper, a board-certified psychiatrist from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, shares practical tips to help you prioritize your mental health and manage holiday stress.

There is a red flag warning across Massachusetts on Friday, as the dry, warm conditions are fueling brush fires across the state.

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The school doors in two cities will remain locked Friday as teachers go on strike. Teachers in Beverly and Gloucester plan to picket as they continue to negotiate a new contract.

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Ahead of the retrial of Karen Read, Massachusetts prosecutors are asking for records of an interview she did last year with Boston Magazine. Read is facing multiple charges, including murder, in the 2022 death of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe in Canton. Prosecutors say she hit O’Keefe, her boyfriend, with her SUV and left him for dead, while Read...

As prosecutors prepare for Karen Read’s second murder trial, they are asking for records of an interview she did last year with Boston Magazine.

Educators in two North Shore cities are on the picket line.

When a 12-year-old boy with autism disappeared on Halloween night, Chelsea police and Massachusetts State Police search and rescue teams deployed to look for him. The nonverbal child was found safe in Boston hours later and reunited with his family. “Thank god this juvenile was found in Boston. There was no way we could have found him if it...

Kristin Carboni spends her days keeping a pack of dogs on the move. The Brewster, Massachusetts, homeowner runs a boarding and training business called Peace Love Dogs at her wooded property on Cape Cod. Earlier this year, Carboni and her husband decided to install an agility course to get the canine customers the exercise they need. However, before the dogs…

Wildlife advocates are sounding the alarm once again about rodenticide, poison used to control rat populations, after sick foxes were found at a mall in Leominster, Massachusetts.

A Cape Cod woman says she and her husband are lucky to be alive after nearly hitting an electrical line despite calling Dig Safe.

Teachers unions in two North Shore communities announced strikes Thursday.

A young man from Fitchburg who became partially paralyzed from a hockey injury and was told he would never walk again, but three years later, he is working to prove that belief wrong and get back on the ice.

The SafetyNet program aims to help track endangered people, like children with autism who wander off.

A man was arrested Thursday after allegedly stabbing a teenage girl at a Cape Cod store. Police in Barnstable, Massachusetts, said the stabbing happened Thursday at the Dollar Tree in Hyannis. They arrested 31-year-old Hyannis resident Nikolas Rescigno. The victim, described by police as a juvenile, was brought to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Witnesses told police the girl…

More than a dozen brush fires are still burning across Massachusetts.

A woman who rescued foxes near a Leominster mall says that rat poison is to blame. 

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A 74-foot-tall fir tree was cut down in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and loaded up for a trip to Rockefeller Center, where it will be decorated in crystals and lights and become among the most famous Christmas trees in the world....

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Teachers in two cities on the North Shore of Massachusetts announced Thursday that they had voted to go on strike. The Union of Gloucester Educators and the Beverly Teachers Association say their members voted overwhelmingly in favor of the action. The Gloucester union said on social media that over 98% of the district’s educators voted to authorize the strike. Julia…