Massachusetts

Hub Hall collection of eateries opens at North Station

One parking spot in the South End of Boston will cost you as much as a condo.

Massachusetts is considering a vaccine verification system.

A young girl suffered minor injuries after being grazed by a bullet in a shooting.

Ask former Boston State Rep. Marie St. Fleur how she sizes up the city’s two remaining mayoral candidates, City Councilors Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George. “I see Wu as more cerebral and Annissa as a scrappy neighborhood kid,” St. Fleur said. Essaibi George, born and raised in Dorchester, chatty and outgoing, has much of the moderate working class...

An organization that has focused on helping with food insecurity is now forced to worry about its own security. The Greater Boston Food Bank is located in Boston’s South End, right next to a growing tent city. Employees say they no longer feel safe going to and from work, and they are calling on the city to address it....

A man has been arrested after a Marine was stabbed in the eye over the weekend in a parking lot in Worcester, Massachusetts. Retired Marine Sgt. Tyler Ferrara, 26, may never regain his sight, but that didn’t stop him from coming to court Thursday to support his brother and mother as they faced the man accused of stabbing him. “My…

A Massachusetts storage company that federal prosecutors said illegally auctioned the personal possessions of an Air Force sergeant while he was deployed has agreed to pay the service member $60,000 in compensation. The U.S. attorney’s office in Boston announced Thursday that Father & Son Moving & Storage also agreed to pay a $5,000 civil penalty and implement new policies to…

A man was arrested after a shooting injured a girl in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, police said.

Thousands of dollars that could be spent on food at the Greater Boston Food Bank are instead going to security as the opioid crisis grips the Mass. and Cass area.

Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George are competing in Boston’s mayoral election.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said he isn’t ruling out implementing a kind of vaccine verification system for the state, possibly something like a vaccine passport.

A Marine was stabbed in the eye in a Worcester parking lot.

Boston police are investigating a shooting that left a child grazed by a bullet.

The Board of Health in West Springfield, Massachusetts, has approved an indoor mask mandate that takes effect the same day as the opening, for the first time in two years, of what’s billed as the largest agricultural fair on the East Coast. The mask mandate starts Friday, the first day of The Big E, a more than 100-year-old multistate...

A Massachusetts fire department says its chief and several other firefighters helped save a man’s life on a flight from Boston to Chicago. North Attleboro Fire Chief Christopher Coleman was traveling Thursday on a Southwest Airlines flight from Logan International Airport to Midway International Airport, along with other current and retired firefighters, when they learned a man on board...

Massachusetts health officials reported another 1,999 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 16 new deaths Thursday. The report pushed the state’s number of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 736,279 since the start of the pandemic and its death toll to 18,046. Massachusetts’ COVID metrics, tracked on the Department of Public Health’s interactive coronavirus dashboard, dashboard, are far lower than they were in spring, and…

Thursday afternoon: Mostly cloudy with spotty sprinkles and showers. Brighter north and west. Temperatures in the low 70s, cooler at the shore with a breeze from the east 10-15 mph. Overnight: Partly cloudy, patchy fog, low in the 60s, 50s north and west. Friday: Mostly cloudy, spot showers, high in the low 70s, cooler at the shore.

A person has been arrested after a child was grazed by a bullet in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. Officers responded to a report that a person had been shot on Talbot Avenue. The Boston Police Department said a 7-year-old girl’s head was grazed by a bullet. The child’s injuries are considered minor. She was not hospitalized. “This is obviously a...

Gov. Charlie Baker said Thursday that Massachusetts could look to create a statewide vaccination identification system similar to what some other states have already implemented. “We’ve been talking to those folks and working through how that would work here in the Commonwealth,” he said during an appearance on GBH radio. “I certainly think it’s going to be an important...