BOSTON — Massachusetts property owners now have a right to build accessory dwelling units or so-called in-law apartments in single-family zoning districts across most of the state, under a law ...

With mortgage rates and home prices stubbornly high, there's no way the couple, who make about $270,000 a year and pay about $2,500 in monthly rent, can afford a home anywhere in their area. According ...

Two gang members in Massachusetts were sentenced to prison for their role in trafficking cocaine and racketeering. In a news ...

Kenneth Osborne, 65, was charged with indecent assault and battery on a person over 14 in Boston Municipal Court Central.

A routine traffic stop by Boston police in East Boston on Wednesday evening turned into a firearm and drug bust, resulting in the arrest of a 23-year-old Saugus man. At approximately 6:29 p.m., office ...

Indicted Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson is allowed to pay her court-appointed attorney on a $1,000 per month ...

Responding police noted Mark McKeown’s “slurred speech, odor of alcohol” and “glassy and bloodshot eyes” at the scene of the ...

Authorities recently identified the victim of a decades-old murder in Boston Harbor using advanced genetic services.

Massachusetts sheriffs say they mostly have a good relationship with ICE, but under state law, that doesn’t mean they have ...