MBTA officials said in late January that the first 50 mph trains in decades could happen "within days." Seven weeks later, General Manager Phil Eng explains why it hasn't happened quite yet.

The collision happened at the railroad crossing on Sterling Street in Clinton before 7:00 a.m., a member of the Clinton Fire ...

SportsLine's model simulated the Miami Heat vs. Boston Celtics 10,000 times and revealed its NBA picks for Friday ...

Two people involved in the crash were taken to a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, Massachusetts State Police say.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY — to Taunton Mayor Shaunna O’Connell, former Massachusetts Democratic Party Chair Gus Bickford, Jackson Cote, ...

1987 — Jockey Laffit Pincay Jr. becomes the first rider in the history of Santa Anita Park to win seven races in a single afternoon. In his only loss of the day, Pincay finishes third aboard Bob Back ...

From space, to medicine, our workplace and our home, women inventors have impacted who we were and who we are now.

New Bedford police have perverted the confidential informant system in countless ways, the Spotlight Team has found. Officers ...

Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap, our Friday roundup of stories that explain the problems oppressing people in cities and ...

The upheaval at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., which has seen the organization’s president and members of its board ...

American communities plagued by gun violence, including Four Corners in Boston, honor pockets of safety as sacred spaces. A ...

Kayla Alvarez, a mom in Massachusetts, gave birth to her daughter Mariah in the back of an ambulance with the help of a ...