Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Massachusetts rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department ...

Buttonwood Park Zoo officials and staff in New Bedford are mourning the zoo's second loss since May, Riley the cougar.

It's early, but mosquitoes with West Nile virus have already been detected in Massachusetts. The Department of Public Health announced June 17 that mosquitos trapped in Shrewsbury tested positive for ...

Our readers will have a say in who is named our High School Boys Volleyball Player of the Year for 2025. Voting ends at 8 pm on Thursday, June 26.

Paula Prado, who was juror No. 11 in the trial, said to Patriot Ledger media partner WCVB Channel 5 that she thought Read was guilty of manslaughter at first. As the trial went on, she said that there ...