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Boston taxpayers who like to know where every dollar goes just got a new rabbit hole to dive into. The city’s 2025 pay records are now out in detail, showing who pulled in the biggest checks and where overtime stacked up across thousands of municipal jobs. The Boston Herald...

Archival photos newly shared by the Cambridge Fire Department this week show firefighters pulling off rooftop and ladder rescues during a three-alarm blaze at 888 Massachusetts Avenue. Posted under the hashtag #cambridgemafirehistory, the images capture heavy smoke pushing from the building's upper floors as crews...

BOSTON (WHDH) - A building in Boston went up in flames Friday. Sky 7 HD flew over the scene on Ellingwood Street, where dozens of first responders were seen surrounding the burned building. Video captured parts of the building scorched and a large hole on one side. No word on...

REVERE, MASS. (WHDH) - A National Grid contractor was rushed to the hospital Saturday afternoon after suffering an apparent shock on Railroad Avenue, officials said. Crews responding to a report of a person who had been shocked in the area of 30 Railroad Ave. around 1:30 p.m. found a 25-year-old man near the railroad...

Revere and Winthrop both faced massive power outages on Saturday, which left over 20,000 residents without power.

Alysa Liu is returning from Milan as a Winter Olympics champion in figure skating and will kick off her post-Olympic skating career just outside Boston. The Skating Club of Boston in Norwood, Mass., is set to host Liu and four other Olympians at its annual showcase, “Ice Chips 2026: A World Tour,” Feb. 28 and Mar. 1.

Above: Devin Linnane helped clear out a hydrant. On Monday, as the snow continued to pile up from a late February blizzard, kids and teens in Dorchester answered the call to show up —shovels in hand — and help out their neighborhood. District 3 City Councillor John FitzGerald...

Boston will start removing parking space savers from the snow Friday. Many residents aren't ready to let them go.

On Monday, Feb. 6, 1978, Massachusetts was bombarded with fast-falling, heavy snow. By the end of the storm, which lasted over 30 hours, the region had been hit with more than 2 feet of snow, stranding cars and marooning workers and students. Days after the legendary Blizzard of ’78 buried the Brockton area, renowned...

A kidney donor drove nearly 18 hours through the recent blizzard to reach Boston in time for a life-saving transplant at Tufts Medical Center. Colleen Richards, a nurse coordinator for the transplant team at Tufts Medical Center, was uncertain if the kidney transplant would happen. For months, she had Feb. 25 circled...