ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The federal government is asking a court to “run roughshod” over the First Amendment after seizing electronic devices from a Washington Post reporter’s Virginia home last month, ...

Major housing developments in Lowell, Westford and Fitchburg are coming online in part due to $140 million in state tax ...

If the walls of the Club Diner could talk, they would tell the story of Lowell for the last century as people came through its doors after a factory shift, a night of bar hopping or for a ...

Taking care of the organizations that take care of the people they serve was the purpose of Wednesday’s energy affordability announcement at Lowell’s House of Hope.

The Sun Santa Fund’s elves are still busily tallying up all of the generous donations this holiday season, and we’re happy to report that a new fundraising event has helped us ...

The Five Minute Read highlights things to do, places to go and people to know in the Greater Lowell area. Have news to share? Send it to news@lowellsun.com. Submissions must be received at least ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Eric Dane, the celebrated actor best known for his roles on “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Euphoria” and who later in life became advocate for ALS awareness, died Thursday. He was 53. His ...

PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a takeover of health care operations in Arizona’s prisons and will appoint an official to run the system after years of complaints about poor medical and ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Memorial services honoring the life of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. will be expanded beyond Chicago with events in Washington, D.C., and South Carolina, the late civil rights leader’s ...

Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform urged the Census Bureau to drop plans to use the American Community Survey form, which includes the citizenship question, and ...

A road-rage dispute in Dracut spilled into Pelham, where police say one woman brandished a knife and slashed the other’s tire ...

Megan Keller backhanded in a shot 4:07 into overtime and the United States won its third Olympic gold medal in women’s hockey, beating Canada 2-1 at the Milan Cortina Games on ...