The Massachusetts House of Representatives voted 129-25 Wednesday night to pass legislation that would ban all children under age 14 from using social media in the state. Kids ages 14 and 15 would ...

A $3.64 billion environmental bond bill advancing through the Massachusetts Senate includes a provision that would ban single-use plastic bags and implement a 10-cent fee for paper bags at stores ...

Local News Just one Mass. college rank among the nation’s best graduate schools, per U.S. News MIT leads in engineering, but Massachusetts medical and nursing programs mostly fall short in the 2026 ...

SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. (WWLP) – Massachusetts has implemented a new firearms safety law that includes updated training requirements and a digital certification process. The new law, which took effect ...

The Bass Pro Shops building in Pearl, Mississippi, is listed for sale for $8 million. The sale is for the building only, as Bass Pro Shops has a lease guaranteeing its tenancy for another 10 years.

A "highly mutated" COVID-19 variant that has been detected in at least 25 states, including Massachusetts, is gaining ground, according to health authorities. Nicknamed "Cicada," BA.3.2 is on the list ...

Netflix is loading up its adult animation slate once again, and this time it’s bringing steam-powered chaos to the Wild West. A new animated series titled Bass X Machina is officially in the works, ...

Source: Election results and race calls are from The Associated Press. By The New York Times election results team: Michael Andre, Neil Berg, Matthew Bloch, Lily Boyce, Irineo Cabreros, Nico Chilla, ...

Dogged detective work tracked down the instrument that had vanished more than 50 years ago, but the true story behind its theft injects a note of sadness It sometimes feels as if a week doesn’t go by ...

The USS Massachusetts is seen during its commissioning ceremony in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 28th, 2026. (MCS2 Lucas J. Hastings/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Navy officially commissioned its newest ...

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BOSTON — A commissioning ceremony was held Saturday along Boston Harbor to officially put the USS Massachusetts, a nuclear-powered submarine, into active service. The submarine was first christened ...