What some insisted was a still-incubating draft majority decision overturning Roe v. Wade was fully born Friday: The Supreme Court has completely dismantled Roe and the series of cases upholding…

Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical High School will soon receive a Career Technical Initiative grant to fund workforce training for the unemployed and underemployed. The $599,970 award will allow the Fitchburg-based…

As of this week, parents in all but one state in the U.S. will be able to obtain vaccination against the coronavirus for children under 5 to as young as…

Despite our state’s stumbles out of the blocks and hiccups along the way in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent study ranked Massachusetts’ response second out of every…

At first glance, a bill that would require the state’s tipped employees be paid the minimum hourly wage makes sense. Currently assigned to the Senate’s Ways and Means Committee, S.1213,…

On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama stood in the White House Rose Garden and changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants. By his executive order, the…

When it comes to righting racial disparities, do actions speak louder than words, or do words spur a call to action? That’s the question that came before the Lowell City…

The compromise gun control bill crafted by 10 Republicans and several Democrats is “more likely than not” to pass the Senate, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., said Tuesday. One of the…

With Independence Day celebrations beginning to register on our summer holiday radars, State Fire Marshal Peter Ostroskey and State Police Col. Christopher Mason dispensed some early, pre-emptive advice — leave…

Every community, especially our state’s Gateway Cities, count on civic-minded volunteers to help with the upkeep that enhances that city’s or town’s curb appeal. The newspaper recently showcased two examples…