If floated as a trial balloon, let’s hope it went over like a lead balloon. That being any discussion of turning the now ...

Jake Cataldo of Billerica was the top local golfer at the MVC Championship, finishing third with a terrific 76.

Three children — ages 5, 8 and 11 — and a teacher were killed at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon, last Thursday when a former student there, 16-year-old Griffin J. John II, blasted his way ...

Wiikwemkoong’s upgrade program is among the first for Indigenous communities in Canada that include First Nations, Inuit and ...

A long-envisioned passenger rail project connecting western Massachusetts to Boston has secured a $130 million federal funding jolt, Gov. Maura Healey’s office announced last week. Healey said the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voter turnout is soaring compared with the last midterm election in many of the states that are expected to decide control of the U.S. Senate, according to an Associated Press ...

Christopher Dubey’s loved ones addressed the court on Tuesday afternoon, including two of his daughters. Their grief filled the courtroom as the man who killed their father, 30-year-old Jacob Dwyer, ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that foreign leaders — including those “on the other side of the Atlantic” — were seeking to exploit France’s tense social climate for political gain ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is asking a federal judge to let it reconsider a major federal permit granted for a large offshore wind farm, making it the fourth project the Republican ...

Maine Republican Susan Collins has promoted her reputation as one of the most independent U.S. senators and she is using the waning days of the election season to sell that message to voters by ...

The Billerica Police Department is welcoming an Air Force veteran and experienced dispatcher to the department upon his successful graduation from Lowell Police Academy.

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Vance formed Wednesday in the Pacific Ocean, the National Hurricane Center said. The center of the cyclone was at sea and posed no threat to land. Vance was located about ...