Massachusetts students are no longer required to get the flu vaccine this school year, health officials announced Friday, citing a mild flu season and a need to concentrate on getting people vaccinated for COVID-19. Nevertheless, health officials are still recommending that people have their children get the seasonal flu vaccination every year, regardless of the requirement being dropped. The Massachusetts…

In an effort to speed up Massachusetts’ coronavirus vaccine distribution plan, Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin is suggesting using polling places in upcoming local elections as a way to get people the first dose of the vaccine.

A Massachusetts man is facing a number of charges in the fatal shooting of a man outside his Malden apartment last month, the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday

A New Hampshire police sergeant is being credited with saving the residents of a burning building in Manchester after he spotted the fire early Tuesday morning. Manchester police Sgt. Michael Lavallee was on routine patrol at about 1:15 a.m. when he noticed the heavy fire at a 3-story building on Auburn Street, the department said. Lavallee called the fire in…

Two Massachusetts State Police cruisers were involved in separate crashes Monday afternoon, just minutes apart, authorities said.

Residents who spent time at one of two restaurants in Quincy, Massachusetts, within the last week and a half are being urged to get a COVID-19 test. The city of Quincy posted on its Facebook page Wednesday on behalf of the Health Department to let residents know there were COVID-19 cases that occurred at The Irish Pub and Cronin’s...

Some members of Congress from New England on Wednesday related what happened in real time as supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol to support his baseless claims of voter fraud. Many New England politicians, Democrat and Republican, decried the riot that had broken out after a Trump rally, and some — including the Republican governor of Vermont…

Low ridership and lost revenue is forcing the MBTA to begin furloughs for some of its workers, the transportation agency announced in a letter to employees last month.

The governors of all six New England states, as well as New Jersey, announced Wednesday in a joint statement they are extending the suspension of interstate youth hockey competitions.

A Massachusetts man shot and killed by police Monday afternoon in Brockton has been identified by prosecutors, who offered more details on the shooting. Twenty-eight-year-old Bryan Cruz-Soto, of Dorchester, was wearing a GPS monitoring bracelet for a case in Suffolk County when he was shot outside a home on Overlook Avenue just before 3 p.m., according to the Plymouth County…