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Search-and-rescue crews were seen pulling a body from the Charles River between Boston and Cambridge Wednesday. Authorities from both cities had been searching the river for at least two hours near the Boston University Bridge. Authorities haven’t released any information about what they believe happened to the man. Witnesses said they saw a shirtless man struggling in the river...

A hazardous material response team with the Boston Fire Department was deployed in Cambridge on Wednesday morning, where 12 firefighters were taken to the hospital with chemical burns. Firefighters responded to a call for the smell of smoke in a corner apartment on the fourth floor of 355 Mass Avenue, near the edge of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus…

Crews were cleaning up Wednesday in Cambridge, Massachusetts and other parts of the region after a powerful storm wreaked havoc overnight. A large tree fell on Newton street, taking down wires, which in turn landed on cars and cause smoke. Residents in the area said a transformer exploded. The fast-moving storms also knocked down trees on Antrim and Akron streets….

Severe thunderstorms swept through New England Tuesday night, prompting warnings and causing damage across the region.

A hazardous material response team with the Boston Fire Department was deployed in Cambridge Wednesday morning, where 12 firefighters were taken to the hospital with chemical burns.

Electric vehicles have surged in demand, and hit a record number last year as more and more people turn to battery-operated cars.

Police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are looking for your help.

Health officials in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are urging residents to wear masks in certain situations, regardless of vaccination status, amid an uptick in COVID-19 cases. The city’s health department said new infections have jumped in July, with 83 confirmed and probable cases reported as of Tuesday. “We urge residents — vaccinated and not — to wear a mask and practice physical…

With coronavirus cases on the rise, city officials in Cambridge are asking people to wear masks and practice social distancing.

A multi-family home caught fire on Autumn Street in Somerville around midnight. An unknown number of adults and children are reportedly displaced Thursday, the Red Cross of Massachusetts wrote on Twitter, and offered services. The Somerville and Cambridge Fire Departments responded to the scene. No further information was immediately available.

New data from Cambridge University shows that the geography of mining has drastically changed over the last six months.

Good times were had by many over the years at Bukowski Tavern at Inman Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. That’s especially true of “Mug Club” members, customers who invested hundreds of dollars to drink all the beers on the menu in six months, earning a coveted engraved glass mug they used on return visits. “There was about 120 different beers,” said…

Bukowski Tavern closed permanently and was sold during the coronavirus pandemic, and club members were concerned about the fate of their mugs.

Cambridge native Elizabeth Pierre was crowned Miss Massachusetts over the weekend and will move on to the 100th anniversary Miss America Pageant. “To the 22 ladies I shared the stage with, you are stars,” Pierre wrote in an Instagram post announcing her victory. “Our class was incredibly talented, dynamic, and fearless! I am so glad we got to experience this together!…

Two overnight shootings in Cambridge left two people injured, police said Friday morning.

It’s not something you see every day in Massachusetts: a commuter sitting in front of a television and playing a PlayStation while at an MBTA stop. But when that took place in Cambridge on Tuesday during the evening commute, Transit police received a phone call, they said. Officers responded to Harvard Station around 4:20 p.m. on July 6 after someone…

Three members of Massachusetts’ congressional delegation visited a Cambridge day care center Wednesday in what was more than just an opportunity to engage with some adorable babies. Reps. Katherine Clark, Ayanna Pressley and Lori Trahan were hosting Cecilia Rouse, the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, to call for the passage of the American Families Plan, which…

A proposal to invest in child care, health care and education programs has strong support from members of the Massachusetts delegation.

A Massachusetts man has been arrested in connection with attacks on multiple cats in Cambridge, including one that was fatal, authorities said. A landlord and maintenance man said that video shared with NBC10 Boston shows a trail of cat food they say the man who was arrested left behind to lure cats into his first-floor apartment to abuse them. It…