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A serial offender with a history of breaking into businesses in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood is facing new charges after yet more commercial break-ins in the same area -- less than 10 days after he was released from jail on probation. James Schaff, 59, has been charged with breaking and...

A fire was reported on the roof of the Alloy Condos at Assembly Row in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Friday afternoon. Fire officials said the fire started in the grilling area of the Alloy Condos, which share a roof space wtih the Row Hotel. They said they aren't sure if anyone was up on the roof grilling at the time

HomeGoods is coming back to its original location in the corner spot at the Great Road Shopping Center. “We anticipate that the new HomeGoods store at The Great Road Shopping Center in Bedford will open in the fall,” HomeGoods brand marketing co-op Emma Lapena stated in an email. For...

A public records request showed that the final security bill for Massachusetts taxpayers for the second trial came to $295,050.55.

A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston this week to payroll tax avoidance and workers’ compensation insurance fraud, prosecutors reported. According to the U.S. attorney’soffice, Henry Lam, of Lowell, used cash payments to employees to hide his firm’s true payroll, avoid collecting and paying tax

A 20-year-old man was arrested on a Boston golf course Tuesday evening after allegedly trying to wrestle his dirt bike away from Boston Police officers who were impounding it, the department said. The man was ... Read more

Police say that they were dispatched Friday afternoon to a playground on Bennet Street to reports of a stabbing.

"If this belongs to you — or if you recognize it from your nightmares — please contact us to arrange pickup," the police department said in a statement

BOSTON (WHDH) - The New England Aquarium’s aerial survey team spotted more than 200 humpback whales off the coast of Cape Cod on a single survey Wednesday. The Aquarium’s Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life aerial survey team saw a total of 222 whales east of Cape Cod, something the agency said is an exciting sign tha

The director's position was eliminated in the fiscal year 2027 budget, and the Office of Green Infrastructure will be incorporated into the Streets Cabinet. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, a longtime advocate for policies that tackle climate change, is eliminating the city’s standalone Office of Green Infrastructure. Some of