Massachusetts

Brush fires are burning in Breakhart Reservation and just off Route 1 in Saugus, Massachusetts, on Thursday.

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No less than 24 hours after Donald Trump was elected president, a new image was projected on the water tower in Hanson, Massachusetts.

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About 40 people were displaced, but no injuries were reported following an overnight fire in Peabody, Massachusetts.

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Police are investigating after a woman was shot and killed in Worcester, Massachusetts, early Thursday morning. 

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A large brush fire is burning near homes and businesses along Route 1 in the Prankers Pond area of Saugus, Massachusetts. The fire was reported around 11 p.m. Wednesday and was still burning on Thursday morning. The cause at this point is undetermined, but the warm temperatures and dry weather conditions certainly hasn’t helped the situation. The fire is on...

The iconic Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree was cut down on Thursday morning. This year’s Norway Spruce is in West Stockbridge in western Massachusetts. It was cut down around 8 a.m. Thursday. It’s the first time in nearly 70 years that a Massachusetts tree has been selected. The 74-foot-tall, 43-foot-diameter, 11-ton tree is being donated by the Albert family. The tree...

A controversy in the town of Hanson, Massachusetts, has reignited after a new image of Donald Trump was seen shining off a local water tower.

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New York City’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree will be cut down Thursday in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

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A fire tore through an apartment building in Peabody, Massachusetts, overnight. And now dozens of people are without a home. The large apartment building on Main Street sustained extensive damage in the fire – the back of the building is completely charred, while the front looks almost untouched. Fire officials said the building is a total loss. Firefighters said they...

Dozens of people are without a home after an overnight fire at an apartment building in Peabody, Massachusetts.

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Bright lights are drowning out a new Donald Trump image projected onto a water tower in Hanson, Massachusetts. The town previously brought in lights to cover up a resident’s projection of a “Trump 2024” sign, saying last month that the effort had cost roughly $3,600. Wednesday, after Trump was elected to a second non-consecutive term in office, NBC10 Boston captured...

Voters in Massachusetts weighed in on ballot questions that are expected to shape policy for years to come. Questions 1, 2 and 3 were approved. Respectively, the measures allow the state auditor’s office to audit the Legislature, end the MCAS as a high school graduation requirement and let rideshare drivers unionize. Question 4, which would have legalized some psychedelics, and...

Massachusetts Republicans will add one more member to their tiny minority caucus in the state Senate, and the House will retain its exact same partisan makeup if a potential recount confirms the apparent winner in one outstanding race. Two Democrat challengers claimed victory in open House districts currently held by retiring Republicans, and two other GOP candidates won in districts...

Gov. Maura Healey on Wednesday forwarded six new potential pardons to the Governor’s Council, for crimes ranging from larceny to worker’s compensation fraud. In filing letters obtained by the News Service, the governor noted in each case that the pardon was supported by a vote of the Parole Board, acting in its capacity as the Advisory Board of Pardons. Healey...

Voters opted to change up the political party of their state representative in at least four districts Tuesday on a night when Massachusetts Republicans showed renewed strength. Republicans flipped at least three legislative seats in Massachusetts, including one held by a veteran Democrat once in the House’s inner circle. In the other direction, a Democrat claimed at least one House...

Kamala Harris won Massachusetts and New Hampshire in Tuesday’s election, NBC News projected, but the vote totals show some areas where the overall victor, Donald Trump, won in each state. With votes still being counted Tuesday morning, Trump was ahead in Bristol County, Massachusetts — In 2016, when Trump last won the presidency, Hillary Clinton won every county. Massachusetts overall...

Massachusetts voters said yes to auditing the Legislature but rejected increasing the hourly wage for workers who collect tips. They also rejected the use of certain plant-based psychedelics and eliminated the use of statewide tests as a high school graduation requirement. Those were among five measures on Tuesday’s ballot.

Karen Read’s defense team is calling on the highest court in Massachusetts to drop two of the charges against her in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe in Canton in January 2022.

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Massachusetts voters said yes to auditing the Legislature but rejected increasing the hourly wage for workers who collect tips. Those were among five measures on Tuesday’s ballot.

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Karen Read’s defense team has called on the highest court in Massachusetts to drop two of the charges against Read in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe.