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A small crowd gathered outside the Iannella Chamber before the City Council’s regular meeting on Wednesday, for Councilor Julia Mejia’s No Taxation Without Representation rally. Although the councilor urged her colleagues to challenge the FY27 budget, she said she has not, and will not, participate in the “smoke and mirrors” amendment process.

QUOTABLE QUOTES – Gov. Maura Healey joined four former Bay State governors at Faneuil Hall to mark the 20th anniversary of Massachusetts’ landmark 2006 health care reform law. Here’s what they said:. “Twenty years ago, Massachusetts showed the country what is possible when people come together and...

Aerial mosquito control spraying planned across Norfolk County wetlands in April. The Norfolk County Mosquito Control District will be conducting helicopter applications of the biorational larvicide Bti (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis) to control mosquito larvae. These applications will be conducted over a likely 2 to 4-day window, lasting only 2 days,...

WILMINGTON, MA — According to the Wilmington Police Log, Wilmington Police issued the following arrests and summonses between April 3, 2026 and April 9, 2026. K. Cosgrove (30, Reading) was served a summons for Uninsured Motor Vehicle and Operating A Motor Vehicle With A Suspended Or Revoked Registration. (1:04am)

Zane White, 18, of Jericho didn’t know a spur-of-the-moment wager would springboard him into Monday’s race — and reap $15,000 for charity. Read the story on VTDigger here: A teen bet he could run on a treadmill for 26 miles. Now he’s the youngest Vermonter in the Boston Marathon. .

WOBURN, Mass. — Firefighters in Woburn extinguished a two-alarm house fire on Saturday. Around 5:30 p.m., crews responded to a house fire on Garden Terrace. Once there, they found heavy smoke and flames emitting from the roof. Due to the scale of the fire, a two-alarm was rung, prompting...

A Lake Street duplex that once blended into the neighborhood is now tied to one of Weymouth’s most chilling recent crimes. On Monday, 46-year-old Kelly Shaw of Weymouth was sentenced to 15 to 17 years in state prison after admitting she killed her housemate, 56-year-old Christine Mello, and then tapped into Mello’s finances in the weeks surrounding her death. The...

WOBURN, MASS. (WHDH) - A man who was sleeping inside a home in Woburn on Saturday when a fast-moving fire broke out is recalling the moment a police officer alerted him and his family members to the flames so they could escape to safety. Jean Mentor says he was sleeping...

When Mayor Michelle Wu stepped to the podium last week to make her announcement few could have predicted the depth of emotion it would stir across Boston neighborhoods. After careful consideration she named Rodney Marshall as the city’s new fire commissioner. This appointment of rodney marshall fire commissioner marks a historic first for the city. […] The post Mayor Wu Makes Historic Appointment, Naming Rodney...

April 20 is Patriots' Day and Marathon Monday in Massachusetts. Here's what's open and what's closed.