It's a scene all too common when heavy rain hits Reading: a car completely submerged in floodwater in the Spring Street ...

Needless” fire alarms can be caused by dust from construction work, smoking under detectors, and even hairspray.

Investigators are still trying to figure out what caused the devastating fire at the floating restaurant, The Dive, on ...

First responders in Portsmouth responded to a boat fire in the area of Bullocks cove in Barrington Sunday. According to ...

The man who died in an East Falmouth house fire on Friday, July 24, was 71-year-old Edward Craig, according to the Cape and Islands District Attorney's office. Information about the cause of the fire ...

As a diehard bicyclist of long standing, I have an aversion to electric bicycles, or e-bikes. Don’t like ’em. They’re too heavy, too fast, and too quiet. Many of the people who ride them on the shared ...

The fire, ignited by Fourth of July fireworks, was extinguished by shortly after 10 p.m., the police said. No injuries were reported. By Chelsia Rose MarciusMack Liederman and Nate Schweber See more ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Two dozen firefighters, members of Call/Volunteer Recruit Class #127, graduated Thursday from the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy. These new recruits are prepared to ...

Massachusetts on Friday joined a growing contingent of states that have codified how reading is taught to young learners as Gov. Maura Healey signed legislation that establishes criteria for ...

A Salem Fire Department recruit on his way to training at the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy last Wednesday provided critical aid to a cyclist on the side of the road who was suffering a heart ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – Massachusetts is poised to join more than 40 states in overhauling early reading instruction under a compromise literacy bill headed toward final votes this week. House and Senate ...

A long-running debate over how schoolchildren are taught to read in Massachusetts may soon be settled: Phonics is set to become the law of the land. In an effort to reverse a decade-long decline in ...