E. coli or enterococci, which indicate fecal matter contaminating water, were detected at swim spots in New York state, ...

Declaring a “systemic violation” of constitutional rights, Massachusetts’ highest court on Thursday ordered trial courts in ...

Massachusetts' highest court is imposing a legal protocol that could result in hundreds of criminal defendants being set free ...

Massachusetts’ highest court has initiated an emergency protocol that could see many indigent criminal defendants in Middlesex and Suffolk county courts released from jail or their cases dropped.

Many court-appointed attorneys have stopped taking on new clients as they fight for higher pay rates from the state.

Separate motorcycle crashes in Suffolk leave one teen dead, another in critical condition. The post One teen critically ...

Officials have closed off swimming at beaches in at least six states due to high bacteria levels. Here's where those closures ...

A Supreme Judicial Court judge is weighing whether to trigger a protocol that could temporarily set free more than two dozen criminal defendants currently being held, as some public defenders refuse ...

The growing fallout from a public defender work stoppage could now set criminal defendants free across Massachusetts.

The Suffolk County Superior Court in downtown Boston, shown Dec. 19. At a status conference for the Edgar Benjamin Healthcare ...

Health officials issue warnings as bacteria and stormwater runoff contaminate beaches nationwide, closing popular swimming ...