Worcester MA

A Worcester city councilor wants the city to enact an ordinance to prohibit rodeos from using tools that hurt animals. Council Vice Chair and Councilor-at-Large Khrystian King’s order calls for the creation of an ordinance that would ban tools of “torture, torment and any painful, injurious techniques or devices to...

“Since launching on Thanksgiving Day in 2022, our Hunters Share the Harvest Program has distributed over 60,000 nutritious meals of venison to Massachusetts residents facing food insecurity. This impactful program allows licensed hunters to donate venison to those in need, while supporting forest conservation by...

DUDLEY, MASS. (WHDH) - The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA) said it removed 62 animals living in unsanitary conditions from a home in Dudley Monday night. The MSPCA said it was called to the home on Mill Street a few months ago for reports of...

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CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Governor Maura Healey visited the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts in Chicopee on Monday amid ongoing uncertainty over SNAP benefits due to the government shutdown. Governor Healey has been making stops at food banks and pantries across the state to show gratitude to the people...

Statewide bans of kratom, an herbal compound which can cause opioid-like addiction, now loom as legislators in Connecticut and Massachusetts recently introduced laws to classify it as a “schedule one” controlled substance. It’s common on convenience store shelves, but the drug has, so far, been unregulated....

BOSTON (AP) — Karen Read, who was found not guilty of charges in the death of her boyfriend, has filed a lawsuit accusing members of the Massachusetts State Police and several others of targeting her and shielding the real killers. Read walked out of court earlier this year after more than three years and two […]

Gov. Maura Healey appointed longtime ally Gina Kwon, who worked alongside the governor for years in public safety and law enforcement, to lead the state public safety secretariat, succeeding a Gov. Charlie Baker administration holdover who retired in September. Healey’s office announced Kwon’s appointment Wednesday...

A 36-year-old man who killed an 18-year-old nearly two decades ago during a drug deal was denied parole following his first appearance before the Massachusetts Parole Board, which found he had not sufficiently invested in violence reduction programming. Mark Hayden was 19 when he shot Andrew Colwell in the head...

A contractor exposed in NBC10 Boston's award-winning "To Catch a Contractor" investigative series has pleaded guilty to larceny charges. Steve Docchio pleaded guilty to four different larceny counts Tuesday morning in Plymouth Superior Court. The former owner of a pool company was accused of stealing from customers...