The largest monthly jump in gas prices in six decades caused a sharp spike in inflation in March, creating major challenges for the inflation-fighters at the Federal Reserve and heightening the ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Negotiators from Iran and the U.S. prepared for high-level talks with their ceasefire still shaky Friday, as Israel and Hezbollah traded fire and Tehran maintained ...

On Wednesday U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern became the first lawmaker to successfully make an unannounced visit to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Burlington, which has been under scrutiny ...

U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Massachusetts Third District, was in town on Thursday, hearing from local officials that the $3.3 million she helped secure for a new roundabout was money well spent.

City, business and community leaders hope that a Business Improvement District initiative will strengthen the future of Downtown Lowell. The progress on launching the plan was presented to the City ...

Lowell Police Department Superintendent Greg Hudon told the council Tuesday night that the LPD doesn’t “really have a relationship with ICE. Their mandate is civil in nature; ours is criminal in ...

Emanuel wears the root of his concern on his sleeve. “As the grandson of immigrants, I won the lottery of life,” he says.

A Sun All-Star in all three running seasons, the sophomore won the State Coaches Invitational two mile in a school-record time of 10:46. She was a MVC champion in the 1,000 meters and two mile. She ...

BOSTON — Massachusetts’ only freestanding birth center for low-risk deliveries is in danger of shuttering, a Northampton senator recently alerted the state’s top public health official.

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First there was Nero’s Law. And now, the lawmaker behind the measure that provided medical assistance for police dogs injured ...

Afrika Bambaataa, a man widely considered one of the main pioneers of hip-hop, died in Pennsylvania of prostate cancer on ...