Investigations

Residents of Wareham contacted NBC10 Boston about the trash piling up near Onset Beach. Despite the warning of $500 fines for littering, enforcement can be rare.

The NBC10 Boston Investigators analyzed hundreds of thousands of 311 complaints to see what Bostonians’ top pain points are, along with how fast city departments address the problems.

The NBC10 Boston Investigators dug into records with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and found that the company involved in Monday’s bridge crash on Interstate 93 south has had a number of violations. But most of those violations are considered low risk. The company — Dove Transportation out of Alabama — has also been involved...

A staffing shortage is causing a shakeup inside the Massachusetts State Police, according to an email the NBC10 Boston Investigators obtained from the leader of the agency. According to the memo, 46 veteran troopers are being pulled from their specialty units and temporarily reassigned to barracks, where they’ll help patrol the streets. In hi...

Police departments in Massachusetts have new software at their fingertips that can search and monitor social media activity, but its rollout is raising concerns among some free speech advocates. The tool, made by a company called ShadowDragon, searches public information from dozens of social media networks, using digital clues to identify who’s be...

In a forthcoming report, government officials are expected to say what they know about unidentified objects encountered by the military. For Leslie Kean, the mystery surrounding UFOs only deepened over the last two decades as she investigated evidence from around the globe.

The Boston Police Department continues to investigate complaints against at least two officers stemming from the Jan. 6 insurrection and comments made in its aftermath. Police records obtained by NBC10 Boston name a pair of officers facing ongoing probes, details the department has declined for months to release, citing the open investigations. The...

Felita Morrison opened the door of her car on the morning of May 2 to buy a coffee on her way to church. Almost immediately, a police officer ordered her to stop and get back into the driver’s seat. “Even to talk about it brings me back,” Morrison told the NBC10 Boston Investigators. “It makes me emotional because it’s......

Video obtained by the NBC10 Boston Investigators shows an MBTA Orange Line train derailing in March. The video shows the train in a work zone at Wellington Station in Medford, Massachusetts. The train appears to bump, then some cars are knocked sideways as a small explosion goes off. The slow-moving northbound train, which was carrying about 100 pa...

A long-delayed disclosure by the city of Boston could lend credibility to former Mayor Marty Walsh’s claim he was unaware of decades-old domestic violence allegations against the city’s embattled police commissioner before naming him to the job.

A state lawmaker from Boston is calling for more transparency from the MBTA. The development comes following an NBC10 investigation, which reported a $7.9 million project to refurbish historic trolleys on the Mattapan High Speed Line was two years behind schedule.

School districts across Massachusetts are receiving a major influx of cash from the federal government, and with students now back in the classroom, many are reimagining education in the post-pandemic era. Congress approved three rounds of funding to help schools safeguard against COVID-19 and rebound in the years ahead. Those bills – including the...

The NBC10 Boston Investigators have obtained an email which indicates Mikayla Miller’s ex-girlfriend reached out to a school guidance counselor several days before her death, expressing concern about her mental health. On Tuesday, the Hopkinton teen’s death was ruled a suicide, according to a death certificate filed by the Massachusetts Office of t...