Massachusetts

A commercial lobster diver was injured when he said he was swallowed by a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod Friday. Michael Packard was in the whale’s closed mouth for 30-40 seconds, he said.

With temperatures set to peak on Monday, Mayor Kim Janey has declared a heat emergency in the city.

A teenager and a police officer who tried to save him died after going into the water Friday in Worcester, Massachusetts, authorities confirmed. Police and fire crews responded to the pond at Green Hill Park, where several people were in the water and one was struggling. Five officers went into the pond. One officer, identified by police as 38-year-old Manny…

A Massachusetts police officer drowned Friday during an attempted rescue of a teenage swimmer at a pond

Our executive producer calls Paul Rabil the Michael Jordan of lacrosse. Rabil is the co-founder of the Premier Lacrosse League and a top player returning to the Cannons, a team formerly based in Boston. This season, the league will be on tour, with all teams playing in a specific stadium for a week – Rabil was feeling great beginning the...

A ransomware attack on the Steamship Authority of Massachusetts hampered operations Wednesday morning. The largest ferry service to the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, the Steamship Authority issued a statement warning that traveling customers may be delayed as a result.

A black SUV wound up stuck on the grass near the sixth hole at a country club in Newton, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, according to the Newton Police Department.

Lawmakers in 14 states and the District of Columbia, have approved allowing restaurants to sell cocktails to go permanently.

A suburban Boston police officer who became a national hero in 2013 when he tackled one of the Boston Marathon bombers retired from the only job he says he ever wanted. Watertown police Sgt. Jeffrey Pugliese retired on Monday after more than 41 years on the force. He wanted to keep working, but had reached the state’s mandatory police retirement…

Beloved children’s book author Eric Carle has died, according to statements from his family and publishing company. He was 91. Carle was the author of more than 70 books, including “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” a classic of children’s literature. It features his signature style of bright, almost collage-like images and a simple story. A message posted online from his family,…

Massachusetts lawmakers released a lengthy and damaging report Monday night into what unfolded at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home.

The Biden administration will stop using immigration detention facilities in Massachusetts and Georgia that are the subject of abuse allegations

The NBC10 Investigators have learned that Hopkinton teen Mikayla Miller’s death has been ruled a suicide, according to a death certificate filed by the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Love letters that John F. Kennedy wrote to a Swedish paramour a few years after he married Jacqueline Bouvier are going up for auction. “You are wonderful and I miss you,” Kennedy scribbled at the end of a February 1956 letter to aristocrat Gunilla von Post.

Since being sworn into office in January, it has been a whirlwind for Vanna Howard, who is the Bay State’s first female Cambodian-American State Representative. It’s a role she could not have imagined as a young child in Cambodia when she was fleeing the Khmer Rouge.

The owner of a Massachusetts pizza parlor lied about the number of employees he had to fraudulently obtain more than $660,000 in federal coronavirus relief funds, then used some of the money to buy and stock an alpaca farm in Vermont, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Dana McIntyre, 57, of Grafton, Vermont, was arrested Tuesday and charged with wire fraud and…

Don’t be alarmed by a low-flying helicopter over Cape Cod in the next month or so. Starting Monday, a helicopter will drop oral rabies vaccine baits intended for raccoons and other wildlife over portions of Barnstable and Plymouth counties, the Cape Cod Times reports. The distribution of the vaccine baits to the north and west of the Cape Cod...

Neighborhoods in several different southern New Hampshire towns were rocked by a mysterious explosion Tuesday night.

The upcoming trial of a former Massachusetts mayor first elected at the age of 23 will showcase the dramatic rise and fall of the wunderkind accused of stealing from his investors and extorting marijuana companies.

Mayor Kim Janey is baffled that a former Boston police officer and union chief who is charged with molesting multiple children reportedly first faced child abuse allegations back in the mid-1990s.