Does Massachusetts have the guts to save its kids?

Editor’s note: This story is part of “Hard Times,” a special report by The Republican on the challenge of healing from civic trauma. Springfield police investigate a shooting on Bay Street in February 2024. For some Springfield children, the sound of …

Massachusetts is Home to the Oldest Cemetery in the US

Thanks in part to reality television and natural curiosity, whether for historical purposes or the hope of seeing a ghost, touring cemeteries, old houses, hospitals, schools and other areas that may be haunted seems to be something that folks, including …

PI expands with new production facility in Massachusetts

Bonded dogs need new home in Massachusetts after their owner died

You don’t need your own boat to take to the seas off Massachusetts

If you’re lucky enough to own a boat, you know the sheer joy of getting out on the water around Massachusetts. There’s the fresh air, the blue sea, a whale sighting from time to time, a different viewpoint of our region and best of all, that feeling of …

Honoring Massachusetts’ Fallen Heroes (Photos)

Boston kicked off Memorial Day weekend with a rededication of the Seaport’s memorial to the Commonwealth’s fallen heroes. It was Saturday’s capstone of the group Massachusetts Fallen Heroes’ “Patriot Week,” which began a week earlier. The organization …

Newton North (Massachusetts) names John McNamara as boys basketball head coach

Massachusetts boys basketball is still a ways away, but that has not stopped the elites from thinking about the upcoming season. In Massachusetts, there are a few teams as decorated as the Newton North Tigers. They have sent many players to the Division I …

Here’s where to see fireworks this weekend in Massachusetts

Massachusetts residents don’t have to wait until Fourth of July to see firework shows. Fireworks are illegal in Massachusetts for those without a certification or licensing. So, you’ll have to leave it to the professionals. Between 2019 and 2023, officials …

What Trump’s ‘beautiful bill’ means for Medicaid, food stamps, and Massachusetts

This disruption of the social safety net could cost Massachusetts more than $1.5 billion a year by increasing state contributions for these benefits and penalizing the state for continuing to use its own funds to provide health care services to low-income …

‘We need to do more’: Five years after George Floyd, police reform slows in Massachusetts

The killing of Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer and other cases of police brutality brought a reckoning over the nation‘s history of racism across multiple industries, in health care, philanthropy, and banking, but particularly in law enforcement, …