Lawrence Mayor Brian DePeña raised eyebrows when he named William Castro as the city’s acting police chief in October 2023.

Housing construction starts have been slow in Boston for the last two years despite projects getting approval, and that ...

Republican state Sen. Peter Durant said he welcomes the increased scrutiny — and called on the Healey administration to disclose the nature of the inspections, and details of what they reveal.

The threat of deadly force presented by Mr. Maclean was immediately apparent and imminent. As a result, mitigation or de-escalation tactics were not possible,” Quinn concluded.

One person was hospitalized after they were rescued from a car that crashed into woods in Reading, Massachusetts, Thursday afternoon.

Massachusetts State Police have released body camera footage from the arrest of Hampden County Sheriff Nick Cocchi back in ...

A woman’s body was found inside of Forest Park in Springfield earlier this week and we’ve been told that the Springfield ...

We speak directly to the sheriff about what happened that day, from his perspective, as Mass. State Police release bodycam ...

Cole Moment was pronounced dead at the WIN Waste Innovations facility in Saugus Dec. 31 after an employee found him ...

The blue state recorded 316 'serious incident' reports at hotels, congregate sites, scattered sites and co-shelters within ...

The Herald is back for the 18th year of “Your Tax Dollars at Work” payroll and database rolling report. Check back here for all our data-driven reporting. And, here’s what we ...