The Latest Breaking News from Massachusetts

At least 75 farms were soaked and more than 1,000 acres of crops lost after heavy storms earlier this week in Western Massachusetts, state agriculture officials said Friday morning.

After a joint FBI task force was unable to pin the 1982 Tylenol murders on prime suspect James Lewis, special agent Roy Lane was coaxed out of retirement to carry out a daring undercover mission. He tells Bevan Hurley Lewis’ death this week ‘puts the pursuit of justice to an…

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Residents face toxic and drowning hazards as officials in Vermont and Massachusetts survey damage from devastating inundation

Abortion and privacy activists join over concerns that cell phones track our movements.

Grant Williams breaks down the math: "$54 million in Dallas is really like $58 million in Boston."

There are overdue library books. Then there's An Elementary Treatise on Electricity, which was last checked out in Massachusetts in 1904. It finally made it back after being spotted in West Virginia.

A Massachusetts library is celebrating the return of a book more than a century after it was last checked out

CHICAGO — Chicago’s life sciences industry is about to get another much-needed shot in the arm. The University of Chicago signed a partnership agreement with CIC, a Massachusetts-based operator of shared workspaces and labs, to incubate dozens of faculty-led startup companies within the university’s leased space in Hyde Park Labs,…

Hikers found the woman at Borderland State Park in Massachusetts, and police used all-terrain vehicles to rescue her.

A bill in Massachusetts seeks to tax rich colleges that favor families of alumni and donors in admissions policies — namely Harvard University — and give the money to poorer community colleges.