A fire at a home in Whitman, Massachusetts started in a pet snake enclosure, fire investigators said. It happened around ...

Some of the strongest pushback against state literacy requirements has come from Massachusetts’ wealthiest communities.

It's putting the public in jeopardy. It's putting firefighters in jeopardy,” said Rich MacKinnon, president of Professional ...

State regulators say a Massachusetts assisted-living facility where a fire killed 10 people earlier this month had its ...

A short-staffed Fall River Fire Department struggled in the Gabriel House fire. But most Mass. fire departments are not staffed to proper standards.

Members of a commission working on new regulations that would change the way assisted living facilities are run will delay ...

One person was taken to a Massachusetts hospital Saturday during the emergency response to a fire in a waterfront home on the ...

Fifteen of the 19 firefighters who graduated from the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy on Friday are set to join the ...