Chelsea

Monthly payments of up to $400 will be sent to nearly 2,000 families starting in November.

A victim was grazed by one of multiple bullets fired from an SUV Thursday evening in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Police in Chelsea said three people were in a Mitsubishi SUV when shots were fired from the vehicle on Route 1. The driver of the SUV continued south, crossing the Tobin Bridge into Boston. Another driver’s vehicle was hit with three bullets…

A fight escalated into shots being fired on a busy roadway.

After owning her home in Chelsea for more than a decade, Mayra Romero knew something needed to change. “The electricity and the gas bill were very high,” she said. Her home didn’t have good insulation, and she paid $400 a month or more during the winter to heat it, using space heaters to supplement the gas service. “The heat would…

Communities with high proportions of renters and non-English speakers had some of the lowest participation rates in Mass Save.

A man who was hospitalized Friday after trying to fight a fire that broke out in Chelsea, Massachusetts, has died, family members tell NBC10 Boston. The blaze on High Street reached three alarms, fire officials said. It started at one building and spread to the house behind it. People in the home were trying to put it out with a…

A man who was hospitalized Friday after trying to fight a fire that broke out in Chelsea, Massachusetts, has died, family members tell NBC10 Boston.

The Chelsea Fire Department responded to High Street early Friday evening for a structural fire.

A driver was injured Monday morning after crashing into a home in Chelsea, Massachusetts, police said.

Hit hard by COVID-19, many in Chelsea, many are fearful about returning to the classroom.

In a COVID-19 update, Gov. Charlie Baker announces new resources for areas in Mass. with dangerously high transmission rates of the virus, including Chelsea, Everett, Lawrence, Revere and Lynn.

Even as the state’s overall rate remains low, in recent weeks spikes in COVID-19 cases have been seen in several communities, many of them in the Greater Boston area. Wednesday’s latest report had nine Massachusetts cities and towns listed in the red category, meaning more than eight cases of coronavirus per 100,000 people. Those cities and towns included Brockton,...

East Boston is one of many communities dealing with a surge in coronavirus cases.

Massachusetts officials have urged residents for months to continue to wear masks outside when unable to practice social distancing. But with the state seeing an uptick in cases, they’re taking their guidance a step further, urging people in hard-hit communities to wear masks at home if they are living with someone with underlying health conditions. “Residents of these higher...

Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday identified four high risk Massachusetts cities and towns that will be the focus of his new COVID Enforcement and Intervention Team. Chelsea, Everett, Lynn and Revere are included in the high risk category, meaning they have over eight cases per 100,000 residents. Twenty-nine other communities, including Auburn, Belchertown, Boston, Brockton, Charlton, Chicopee, Fall River, Framingham,…

Massachusetts released a map showing coronavirus hot spots across the state.

With a recent uptick in coronavirus cases, Gov. Charlie Baker is implementing new regulations starting Tuesday.

Amid rising coronavirus cases in Massachusetts, Gov. Charlie Baker identifies four communities as “high risk” that will be the focus of increased enforcement of the mask mandate and crowd control.

Officer Luis Tarraza was just starting his shift on Sunday morning when he got a call about a woman who refused to leave a hotel. It’s a call he gets often, he said, and thought he knew what he was going to walk into. When we got there, he found a woman who he estimated was in her 60’s....

When an older homeless woman said she didn’t have any money and nowhere to go, Chelsea Police Officer Luis Tarraza paid for her to stay the night at a hotel.