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Cape Downwinders Diane Turco called on the public to start paying more attention to the decommissioning and attend citizensadvisory board meetings.

The owner of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, Holtec International, plans to remove the water from the reactor vessel and spent-fuel pool, according to Seth Pickering of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

The men are 'claiming to be from a group that does not recognize our laws,' police in Wakefield said.

Assault-style weapons have been banned in the state since 2004.

Gov. Charlie Baker signed an executive order on Monday for 1,000 members of the Massachusetts National Guard to be on stand by Election Day.

These were scenes not seen so widely in the United States in decades, scenes that police training, recruitment and reform were intended to prevent: officers striking unarmed protesters, in the heart of American cities, carrying out orders.

President Donald J. Trump declared that a major disaster exists in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and ordered Federal assistance to supplement Commonwealth, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic beginning on January 20, 2020,

The St Patrick's Day Parade is a tradition in South Boston that attracts more than a million spectators. WBZ-TV's Paul Burton reports.

ORLEANS, Mass. — Shark sightings prompted Massachusetts officials to close two beaches to swimming this weekend. The first sighting was off Nauset Beach in Orleans on Saturday morning.

The outage seems to only be affecting wireless 911 calls. Landline calls to 911 appear to be working, State Police said.

Emergency crews are responding to what they believe is a series of gas explosions that have damaged homes across three communities north of Boston

A Massachusetts man has been arrested for tweeting out an offer to pay $500 to anyone who would kill an immigration agent, federal prosecutors said.

The bus was traveling from Northampton to Amherst.