SALEM — LEAP for Education Executive Director Linda Saris will retire as executive director this June, some 24 years after founding the organization which has gone on to help thousands ...

The city will soon need to tax residents to the max allowed under Proposition 2½ due to high operating costs it can’t avoid paying, Mayor Ted Bettencourt warned ...

Years after returning home from conflict in the Middle East, Gloucester native David Nicastro found himself in need of healing. What he found was others who needed someone by their ...

The Beverly Public Library is inviting all adults in the community to read “The Bear” by Andrew Krivak between April 6 and May 15, as part of the ...

Bishop Fenwick freshman Madelyn McMillan recently received the school’s FIRST Award to recognize her kindness and aptitude for leadership, the school said in a statement.

The future is another country, glimpsed only faintly in the distance, its contours difficult to discern, its political landscape hard to imagine — especially at a time when the nation ...

Eugenio Suarez hit a three-run home run and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Boston Red Sox 3-2 to win their season-opening series. Suarez’s homer, his first since rejoining the Reds ...

Ryan McCarthy exploded for six goals and two assists as the five-time defending Division 1 state champions opened their season with a big road win.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Shortsleeve has tapped a New Bedford councilman as his running-mate for lieutenant governor as the GOP primary race to challenge Democratic Gov. Maura Healey ...

The state's top federal prosecutor has set up a new unit specifically to investigate public benefits and voter fraud in Massachusetts as the Healey administration faces increasing scrutiny ...

After a sparkling playing career for Danvers High and in college at Holy Cross, Wally Dembowski has taken his love for football to the next level.

BEVERLY — Police are investigating a robbery that occurred Saturday morning in which an armed suspect broke into an estate in the Prides Crossing neighborhood and assaulted and tied up ...