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Hurricanes can cause flooding with intense rainfall or with high winds that send storm surges rushing into coastal communities. Much more rarely, they cause both problems at once.  A study published Thursday ...

BRUSSELS — The European Union and the United States have agreed to resume trade in oysters, clams, mussels and scallops starting at the end of February, settling a 10-year trade ...

Chie Ferrelli loved her Subaru SUV, which she bought in 2020 because it made her feel safe. So when it was time for her husband, Mark, to purchase his own ...

A boisterous political battle over a proposed expansion by the largest and most expensive hospital system in Massachusetts is spotlighting questions about whether similar expansions by big health systems around ...

A Cape Cod man is facing more than nine criminal charges after police say he broke into a woman’s home, kidnapped her at gunpoint, and then led police on a ...

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced Thursday that she’s running for governor, transforming the year’s top political contest by stepping into the race as the presumptive front-runner on the Democratic ...

A huge 9-alarm fire consumed a motel and several neighboring buildings in Salisbury, Massachusetts, officials said early on Monday.It is unclear what caused the blaze, and whether there have been ...

Two longtime Massachusetts district attorneys announced Wednesday that they will not seek reelection this year. Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe and Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett made their ...

PORTLAND, Maine — A judge has awarded nearly $1 million in damages to the families of four fishermen who died when their boat mysteriously sank off the Massachusetts coast in ...

Mission, Kan. What students are learning about the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 may depend on where they live.In a Boston suburb in heavily Democratic Massachusetts, history ...