Boston MA

Mayor Michelle Wu declared a heat emergency, and dangerous temperatures are expected to stick around through Wednesday. Boston is experiencing a heat wave of potentially historic proportions early this week, but a few of the city’s pools are not scheduled to be opened until after the sweltering conditions subside.

When Mike Shaw — the restaurateur behind the South Boston restaurant mini-empire that includes Lincoln Tavern, Loco Taqueria, Fat Baby, and Hunter’s — first viewed the Lot on the Dot, a 30,000-square-foot outdoor space that was hosting one-off events like movie screenings and a Taylor Swift fan night, he saw an...

Medford's mayor is reacting to an NBC10 Boston investigation that raised questions about a police sergeant using a family member's disability parking placard while on duty at the police department headquarters. NBC10 Boston published the report on Monday, revealing undercover video of Sgt. Barbara DeCristofaro...

One week after was acquitted on the three most serious charges related to John O’Keefe’s death, frustration still simmers in Canton, where some residents say their trust in the police is shattered — and that O’Keefe’s real killer remains protected and at large. “ ......

BOSTON — Officers assigned to the District B-3 arrested Tristian Howard, 22, of Brockton, on firearm offenses Monday. At 8:23 a.m., officers responded to the area of 7 Woodbole Avenue for a report of a person with a gun. Boston Police Operations provided officers with a description of a...

Robert Cappucci has been campaigning for public office for more than five decades, with runs for state representative, Congress, City Council and now, for the fourth time, mayor of Boston. “A winner, as they say, never quits, and a quitter never wins,” says the 80-year-old one-time Boston Police officer.

“His relentless reporting ... cracked this case wide open,” the former federal prosecutor said of Aidan Kearney. Turtleboy blogger Aidan Kearney, the polarizing local media figure who shot to national prominence covering Karen Read’s murder case, has received a surprising endorsement from an unlikely ally. “Without...

“The community was right to be outraged by what was in the video, and our officers are always at the ready to investigate.”

BOSTON (WHDH) - A state police lieutenant is on the road to recovery after a hit-and-run nearly left him for dead. Investigators say a teen on a stolen motorcycle plowed into Lt. Donald Bossi on Monday just outside the state police barracks on Revere Beach Boulevard. The crash propelled Bossi...

A Massachusetts man was sentenced to federal prison for distributing fentanyl, and is also indicted for murder in connection with the shooting death of a 13-year-old boy.