News
Cape Cod used to be more accessible by train. Could expanded commuter rail be next?
Local News It’s been decades since residents have been able to regularly get to Cape Cod by train, leading to growing issues of car congestion. A new bill aims to change that with commuter rail service. Commuter rail, like the train seen here at South Station in Boston, could be expanded to Cape Cod if […]
Dana-Farber nurses go on strike in Methuen
Local News After more than nine months of negotiating, nurses at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute-Merrimack Valley took to the picket line Wednesday. Nurses at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute – Merrimack Valley in Methuen went on strike this week to call for better wages and benefits. Massachusetts Nurses Association Nurses at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Methuen went on […]
Local obituary: Caitlin Kuhlman, Lexington resident and Boston native, ‘truly a renaissance woman’
Local News Caitlin Anne Kuhlman, 41, died on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. Caitlin Kuhlman. – via Lehman, Reen & McNamara Funeral Home Caitlin Anne Kuhlman, 41, of Lexington, formerly of Boston, passed away on Sunday, September 24, 2023, at her home, after enduring two and a half years with Uterine Leiomyosarcoma, a rare cancer. Caitlin […]
Teen rescued, airlifted after falling 60 feet on Maine mountain
Local News The teen was hiking off-trail with a friend when he slipped and fell 60 feet down Tumbledown Mountain, Maine officials said. Maine wardens, forest rangers, and volunteer rescue personnel ready 15-year-old Kyle Lund to be hoisted to a waiting helicopter. Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife A 15-year-old boy was airlifted off […]
Report: Brand new Green Line Extension riddled with defects
Local News The recent discovery of track defects on the GLX has lowered speeds to 3 mph in some areas — slower than many people walk. A rider steps onto a trolley at Union Square. Carlin Stiehl for The Boston Globe, File Heralded as the dawn of a new era for the MBTA when it […]
A Rhode Island man is charged with possessing 26 pounds of cocaine in a kayak on a Vermont lake
Crime The U.S. attorney’s office said agents encountered Freddy Rodriguez, 38, of West Warwick, Rhode Island, behind a rented camp in Highgate on the night of Sept. 18 and into September 19. By Associated Press updated on September 27, 2023 | 10:10 AM BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Rhode Island man has been charged in […]
Republicans face growing urgency to stop Trump as they enter the second presidential debate
Politics The debate comes at a critical moment in the GOP campaign, with less than four months before the Iowa caucuses formally launch the presidential nomination process. Republican presidential candidates, from left, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Vice President Mike Pence, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, […]
A fire at a wedding hall in northern Iraq has killed more than 100 people and injured 150
Politics Civil defense members inspect the scene of a fire that broke out during a wedding at an event hall in Al-Hamdaniyah, Iraq on September 27, 2023. ZAID AL-OBEIDI/AFP via Getty Images By FARID ABDULWAHED, Associated Press September 26, 2023 MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — A fire that raced through a hall hosting a Christian wedding […]
Ruff duty: Commander Biden bites another Secret Service employee at the White House
Politics FILE – President Joe Biden’s dog Commander, a German shepherd, is walked outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, April 29, 2023. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File By Associated Press September 26, 2023 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden ’s dog Commander has bitten another U.S. Secret Service employee. A uniformed division […]
Massachusetts lawmakers unveil sweeping $1 billion tax relief package
Politics Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka, left, and Massachusetts House Speaker Ronald Mariano, both Democrats, unveiled a tax relief package, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, at the Statehouse, in Boston. AP Photo/Steve LeBlanc By STEVE LeBLANC, Associated Press September 26, 2023 BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts lawmakers unveiled a tax relief package Tuesday aimed at delivering $561 […]