New Year's Eve

Eighteen-year-old Zackary Hamadeh, who is a resident of the home, will be charged with furnishing alcohol to minors in connection with the party, police said. Further charges relating to violations of COVID-related gathering restrictions are likely, police said.

Duxbury police broke up a New Year’s Eve party that was attended by at least 17 teenagers who were violating Massachusetts’ COVID-19 gathering restrictions. Police responded to a disturbance on Federal Eagle Road around 10:30 p.m. Thursday where officers found teens from several South Shore communities gathered for a house party. The party was broken up, and police were able…

New Year’s Eve 2020 was a far and away different experience amid the pandemic compared with the crowded excitement of previous years. But the ball still dropped, and the iconic spectacle was still a thrill. Watch the livestream above all night long to be part of New York City’s Times Square celebration (and to see the cleanup afterward) even...

New Year’s Eve is being celebrated like no other in most of the world, with pandemic restrictions limiting crowds and many people bidding farewell to a year they’d prefer to forget

The last day of 2020 featured clouds and cool temperatures with a lull between storm systems.

New Year’s Eve: Partly to mostly clear. Temperatures around 30. New Year’s Day: Sunshine, clouds late. Overnight snow and rain. Highs in the 30s. Saturday: Morning showers south, snow north, to a drier afternoon. Highs in the 40s.

The holidays have been very different during the coronavirus pandemic, and New Year’s Eve will be no exception. There will be no fireworks or in-person events for First Night Boston, with the organization instead hosting a virtual broadcast starting at 6 p.m. Officials are urging people to stay home this year, and Mayor Marty Walsh said tickets could be...

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The streets of Boston are normally packed on New Year’s Eve, but things look different this year during the coronavirus pandemic.

Countries close to the international date line, including Australia, China and Taiwan, began to ring in 2021 with fireworks shows.

New Year’s Eve: Partly to mostly clear. Temperatures around 30. New Year’s Day: Sunshine, clouds late. Overnight snow and rain. Highs in the 30s. Saturday: Morning showers south, snow north, to a drier afternoon. Highs in the 40s.

Because COVID-19 numbers continue to surge in Massachusetts and around the nation, New Year’s Eve celebrations will certainly look different this year.

New England is diving into a more active weather pattern as we start the New Year with a few storm systems taking swipes at the region in the days ahead.  The first disturbance was a cold front early Thursday morning that delivered rain from northwest to southeast – only about one to two-tenths of an inch and fast-moving enough to…

Thursday: Clearing north to south. Temperatures around 40. New Year’s Eve: Partly to mostly clear. Temperatures around 30. New Year’s Day: Sunshine, clouds late. Overnight snow and rain. Highs in the 30s. Saturday: Morning showers south, snow north, to a drier afternoon. Highs in the 40s.

Those planning to celebrate are asked to do it in small groups, as coronavirus cases continue to rise.

We have a few systems affecting the northeast over the next several days. One system moves through tonight, another Friday night into Saturday, and a third Sunday night into Monday.

Wednesday night: Rain showers, ice in the Berkshires, rain/snow North Country. Temperatures around 40. Thursday: Morning showers exit south, then mostly cloudy. Partly cloudy and dry for New Year’s Eve. Highs in the 40s, 30s at midnight.

Boston police will be on the lookout for house parties on New Year’s Eve, Mayor Marty Walsh and Police Commissioner William Gross said at a coronavirus briefing Wednesday where they once again urged residents to stay home. “We’ll be knocking on doors and asking people to shut down. Hopefully people cooperate,” Walsh said, adding that, if more than 10...

For New Year’s, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh reiterated his request that residents stay home — but police Commissioner William Gross said he is hiring additional coverage for the ciy.

Wednesday evening: Cloudy. Upper 30s. Overnight Wednesday: Rain showers, ice in the Berkshires. Rain/snow in North Country. Temperatures around 40. Thursday: Morning showers exit south, then mostly cloudy. Partly cloudy and dry for New Year’s Eve. Highs in the 40s, 30s at midnight.