Massachusetts

Lesley Albert helped plant a tree in her yard nearly 60 years ago. It will now stand in Rockefeller Center in her honor. Here’s the heartwarming story of how it happened.

Kendrick Lamar and SZA announced a new tour on Tuesday morning, including a May 12 date at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Their “Grand National Tour” includes 19 stops in all, beginning in Minneapolis on April 19, and including other major cities like Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Charlotte, Philadelphia, Seattle, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago, Detroit and Toronto. Tickets go on...

Rock and Roll Hall of Famers AC/DC announced a new stadium tour Monday that will include a stop in May 2025 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The Grammy-award winning rockers will perform in 13 stadiums across the U.S., including a stop at Gillette on May 4, 2025. It’s the band’s first tour in nine years. Tickets go on sale...

The Newbury Fire Department responded just after midnight to the serious motor vehicle crash on I-95 northbound near Exit 81 and found two passenger cars had crashed head-on.

An Amber Alert has been canceled after three children were found safe following their alleged parental kidnapping from Stoughton, Massachusetts.

New England is no stranger to seeing snowstorms much earlier than the official start of winter! Here are some of the biggest early storms.

The 24-date tour kicks off in Noblesville, Indiana, on July 8, and will end at the Glen Helen Amphitheater in San Bernardino, California, on August 19.

A fire raged through a huge abandoned mill building along the river in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and investigators are calling it suspicious. Area fire departments worked to get the situation under control amid towering flames coming from the structure. The fire broke out early Monday morning. “I saw huge fire here and I was just like ‘Oh my god!’” said Johnny...

Video shows a scaffolding plank falling inches from a person walking into Boston’s South Station last week.

Authorities announced an arrest Wednesday in a nearly 46-year-old double murder in western Massachusetts. Timothy Scott Joley, 71, of Clearwater, Florida, was arrested for the 1978 murders of Theresa Marcoux and Mark Harnish, Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni said at a news conference. The bodies of Marcoux, 18, of East Longmeadow, and Harnish, 20, of South Dennis, were found outside...

Heavy flames and thick smoke roared through two triple-deckers on Union Street in Southbridge early Wednesday morning, threatening to catch a third on fire. “I started knocking on everybody’s door, knocking on the windows, get out, get out there’s fire, fire, fire!” said a neighbor who helped others escape. The fire was first reported at 3:25 a.m. Thankfully, the smoke alarms...

A Massachusetts Air National Guard member who pleaded guilty to leaking highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday.

Bright lights are drowning out a new Donald Trump image projected onto a water tower in Hanson, Massachusetts. The town previously brought in lights to cover up a resident’s projection of a “Trump 2024” sign, saying last month that the effort had cost roughly $3,600. Wednesday, after Trump was elected to a second non-consecutive term in office, NBC10 Boston captured...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts spoke after winning a third term on Tuesday.

The cause of a massive fire that destroyed the former Anthony’s Cummaquid Inn in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, on Sunday remains under investigation, officials say. Yarmouth fire officials posted an update on Facebook saying the fire’s cause remains undetermined and is currently under investigation. They said fire crews remain on scene Monday morning. The fire department said it received a call around...

The first installment in Vanity Fair’s long-awaited profile of Karen Read dropped on Tuesday morning. Part 2 is scheduled to be released on Wednesday. Karen Read is ready to speak. This summer, after her first murder trial ended with a hung jury, Read spoke to VF about her late boyfriend John O’Keefe, and what she and her legal team allege...

The 17-year-old student and social studies teacher at odds over the issue both took the stand in federal court Tuesday.

Two Nantucket fishermen made a life-saving catch this weekend, saving a frantic fellow fisherman clinging to what was left of his capsized boat.

The purple holiday pail is “illustrated with a sweet Halloween motif” of round-shaped, costumed creatures.

Editor’s note: Some readers might find the images included in this story disturbing. Orleans police shared three photos of the shark on Facebook on Tuesday, showing the dead shark on the back of a flatbed truck. “Not one of our typical calls for service,” the department said. “Not is it one for our local duty tow, Nauset Recovery. But, as...