Worcester MA

You know that feeling when you discover your favorite restaurant has been getting its ingredients from a gas station?. Well, Courthouse Seafood in Cambridge has the exact opposite situation going on, and it’s about to become your new obsession. Tucked into East Cambridge on the corner of Third Street...

Massachusetts cannabis use study shows 37% of residents use marijuana, with rising daily use, retail trends, and safety concerns.

Officers restrained a 10-year-old boy with autism face-down at school drop-off, placing a knee on the boy’s neck and fracturing his arm. Advocates filed a federal lawsuit Monday, alleging that Worcester’s 911 service sends armed police officers to all mental health calls, discriminating against people with mental...

Colorful, chaotic, and a little unreal, this abandoned Massachusetts quarry does not exactly ease you into the experience. The place hits you fast with huge stone walls, wide-open space, and layers of graffiti that make it feel less like a forgotten industrial site and more like a giant outdoor canvas people never...

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

WORCESTER, MA — Five men were arrested on human trafficking charges following an undercover operation at a local hotel, police said Friday. The Worcester Police Special Crimes Unit and Cyber Crime Unit partnered with the Boston Division Homeland Security Investigations New England Human Trafficking Unit and the...

A Massachusetts woman has big plans after recently hitting some big money on a State Lottery scratch ticket. According to the Massachusetts State Lottery, Millana Neely-Ramos of Boston has won a $1 million prize in the Massachusetts State Lottery’s “$2,000,000 50X Cashword” $10 instant ticket game. Neely-Ramos...

The Worcester Zoning Board of Appeals on Monday voted to advance a proposal for a 19-story skyscraper on 56 Pleasant St. with 225 apartment units. The development firm behind the proposal is the New York-based Radson Development. Donald O’Neil, a lawyer representing Radson, appeared before the board on Monday,...

Worcester County prosecutors dropped criminal charges against a 40-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing another man in January, court records show. Tailor Albert Quinonez was charged in Worcester District Court with armed assault with intent to murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in connection...

Worcester’s onetime Fallon Health headquarters is about to trade cubicles for couches. Developer Synergy has locked in roughly $51.17 million in financing to turn the downtown office tower into 198 market-rate apartments, a deal now being billed as the largest office-to-residential conversion in Massachusetts. The...