It’s up to each federal agency to determine how it handles a shutdown, but there would be disruptions in many services.

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. rose this week to its highest level since late November, reflecting a recent uptick in the bond yields that lenders use as a guide to price home ...

FITCHBURG — I recently pulled a couple extra city shifts doing a ride-along with some of the finest from the Fitchburg Police ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A person in Louisiana has the first severe illness caused by bird flu in the U.S., health officials said ...

AVIGNON, France (AP) — A court in France on Thursday sentenced the ex-husband of Gisèle Pelicot to 20 years in prison for drugging and raping her and allowing other men to rape her while she was ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The shooter who killed a student and teacher at a religious school in Wisconsin brought two guns to the school and was in contact with a man in California who authorities say was ...

Hungry for housing production, public officials are eyeing the massive, mostly state-owned Joint Base Cape Cod, which includes parts of the towns of Bourne, Falmouth, Mashpee and Sandwich. The ...

The latest eatery to open in the city is already getting a lot of buzz from locals who are enjoying the mix of Italian and Greek offerings. A ribbon-cutting was held on Dec. 11 at ...

A new report suggests Massachusetts employers have become increasingly sanguine about their prospects in anticipation of the incoming Trump administration’s economic policies. The survey by the ...

The North Middlesex Regional hockey team skated to its first win of the 2024-25  season on Wednesday evening, picking up a 5-0 victory over Roy Conference foe Grafton inside the ...

Federal prosecutors in the kickback case of Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson say they have so much evidence to process — including a database of more than a million files — that they are ...

If it sounds like an unusual application of a terrorism law, it’s not the first time the statute has been applied to a case that wasn’t about cross-border extremism or a plot to kill masses of ...