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A week after a federal judge sentenced a Massachusetts utility to pay $53 million for its role in the Merrimack Valley gas explosions, Massachusetts’ attorney general has reached an agreement with the company for an even greater sum. Columbia Gas agreed to a $56 million settlement and will not be allowed to operate in the Bay State again, Attorney General…

Charlestown residents wanted answers after a stray electrical current shocked a pair of dogs, so Eversource is scanning for any issues and the city of Boston is replacing metal hand hole components with composite.

An electric current created by a damaged service line jolted passing dogs on a Charlestown street corner for weeks, dog owners said.

A woman says her dog was shocked on the corner of Bunker Hill and St. Martin streets in Charlestown.

Crews responded overnight to a report of manhole fires near Faneuil Hall in downtown Boston and remained on scene Sunday morning. Eversource says the smoking manholes at Union and North streets were caused by an underground equipment failure that burned cables. The Boston Fire Department and Eversource are working to fix the problem. No injuries have been reported and officials…

Crews are again responding to manhole fires in downtown Boston for the second time this week.

A storm Sunday morning into Monday night brought significant amounts of snow to Boston and across New England.

You could call it the giving tree, but all it was giving a Boston woman was a headache, leaving her car a mess for years. And to make matters worse, it wasn’t even her tree, so she reached out to Consumer Investigative Reporter Leslie Gaydos for help. Jo-Ann Alleyne was tired of cleaning up after a large tree on the...

A Roxbury woman was tired of cleaning up after a large tree next to her home, so she reached out to NBC10 Boston Responds.

Three days after a ferocious nor’easter battered the South Shore, toppling trees and ripping utility lines, power slowly returned to many communities that spent days in the dark. Utility crews crisscrossed neighborhoods, hanging up fallen power lines across Hanover, Massachusetts, as the debris cleanup continued throughout the town. “It was a problem to do just basic stuff,” said Daniel Pineau...

Utility crews crisscrossed neighborhoods, hanging up fallen power lines across Hanover, Massachusetts, as the debris cleanup continued throughout the town.

Much of New England was hammered by a heavy storm overnight.

People on Massachusetts’ coast are getting ready for a long-lasting nor’easter. Scituate residents checked their dock lines Wednesday night, making sure their boats were secure at Scituate Harbor in anticipation of the high-impact storm.

A utility worker has been hospitalized after receiving an electric shock of nearly 7,500 volts while working at a Massachusetts substation.

A driver is under arrest after striking a pole and knocking out power to some residents in Hyannis, Mass. Saturday night.

A driver is under arrest after striking a pole and knocking out power in Hyannis.

Customers complained a moving company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, held their furniture hostage, while demanding more cash for their services. Now, some of them will be getting their money back, thanks to a legal judgment secured by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. The developments come after a 2016 report about the business tactics of Father & Son Moving & Storage...

A tornado touched down in northeast Connecticut Wednesday when severe thunderstorms rolled through the area, the National Weather Service confirmed after an investigation. The EF-1 twister struck in Tolland County around 5:45 p.m., with winds as fast as 85-90 mph, the NWS said Thursday.