Gov. Maura Healey on Thursday called news of an airplane crash in Washington, D.C. that killed six people with ties to a Massachusetts figure skating club “devastating.”

The circulating bird flu has become “widespread” in Massachusetts, as officials believe the virus has killed 500 to 1,000 wild birds across the region.

A new fund is providing up to $5,000 to Boston families who have an immediate family member who died from an opioid overdose.

Mayor Michelle Wu will no doubt come up with some lame excuse for not testifying before Congress next month – maternity leave, racism, sexism, panic attack or some other equally bogus reason.

The Skating Club of Boston lost two coaches, two young skaters and their two mothers in the deadly crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 in Washington, D.C.

BOSTON - An educational assessment known as "the Nation's Report Card " has Massachusetts students scoring higher than their peers on math and reading tests given to fourth and eighth graders nationwide in 2024. But a closer look at the data shows concerning trends in the state and across the country when it comes to post-pandemic learning.

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who won the pairs title at the 1994 world championships and competed at the Winter Olympics twice, were aboard the plane, officials said.

Boston picked up 23.8 inches of snow during the storm, 23.6 inches of which fell on Jan. 29, alone. That remains the heaviest calendar-day snowfall in Boston records dating to 1891, according to NOAA's ACIS database. It's almost half their average annual snow in just one day.

Many areas saw just a light dusting of snow Tuesday night into Wednesday, while part of Franklin County was hit with six inches.

A Massachusetts man has won a cool $1 million on the Massachusetts State Lottery’s Celtics Banner 18 instant ticket, state lottery officials said Wednesday.

A figure skater and his mother from Rhode Island were on board a passenger plane that crashed into an Army helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport near Washington, D.C. Wednesday night,