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QUINCY, MASS. (WHDH) - The City of Quincy is getting ready to replace firefighters’ gear, following the city council’s unanimous approval of a plan Monday night. The vote allocated a $2.6 million bond to purchase new coats and pants for fire crews. Research from last year found high...

Dear Billy T and Somerville/Medford News Weekly Speakup Line,. Billy what do you think about that community space at Gilman Sq? It was supposed to be for families/kids to hang out instead it’s for tents and trash left there from the summer, god forbid if you bring it up, everyone attacks your comment!

A man who was shot and killed by police while wielding a knife in Weymouth was remembered for his love of the outdoors in his obituary. Sean Barry, 25, was shot by police at Webb State Park on March 18 while holding a knife, according to the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office. He was taken to a hospital and...

Residents of this small Massachusetts town are no longer allowed to operate gas leaf blowers as of March 15, 2026.

BOSTON (WHDH) - A 29-year-old man was arraigned in a West Roxbury court Monday in connection to an incident at the Forest Hills MBTA station in Jamaica Plain on Friday. Micah Martin, of Hyde Park, is facing 15 charges including one count of armed carjacking, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building,...

Less than a week before four riders and two police officers were attacked with a butcher knife at a Boston bus station, officers had already confronted another group armed with a butcher knife at a different MBTA stop. Both unusual incidents unfolded in the same week — the first at...

A 37-year-old man convicted of a 2008 Boston killing has been granted parole under the Commonwealth v. Mattis decision, a Supreme Judicial Court ruling that allows a second chance for 18-to-20-year-olds previously sentenced to life without parole. Elbert Newson, of Dorchester, was 19 when he and a co-defendant...

A 16-year-old from Needham charged in the deadly shooting of a 61-year-old in Roxbury back in October was arraigned today.

Lottery officials say that a Massachusetts woman is understandably in shock after winning big money on a scratch ticket. According to the Massachusetts State Lottery, Cheryl Pitts-Rogier of Quincy is the first $1 million prize winner in the Massachusetts State Lottery’s new “$4,000,000 In The Money” $10 instant...

Police say "chaos" erupted after one girl allegedly shoved an officer and resisted arrest.