All public schools in Springfield, Mass., will be closed Tuesday, September 8, following a cyber incident.

It's been almost a decade since federal health officials first issued a warning about the herbal product kratom, promoted as a safe alternative to opioids for pain. It remains readily available in stores. Massachusetts and Springfield officials are taking action.

After nearly a week of deliberations and a last-ditch appeal from the defense to the Supreme Judicial Court, the jury of nine women and three men failed to reach a verdict as to whether Lindsay Clancy, 36, should be held criminally responsible for her children's deaths.

A scientific-commercial partnership has sparked research to better understand the life and death of a North Shore export.

This week the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would push back planned protections for the North Atlantic right whale by another seven years.

While many residents are celebrating the project's cancellation, clean energy advocates say it highlights a big barrier to clean energy development: exorbitant interconnection fees.

A pilot program of an AI teaching model will start being used at the end of September, in a single classroom at a public middle school in Springfield, Massachusetts. Some educators see it as an opportunity to address learning challenges and engage students, while others say the decision to use this AI program was made too quickly — and independently.

More than a thousand people took to the streets in Danbury on Wednesday night to protest recent immigration arrests that have stunned the community.