LOWELL — UMass Lowell engineering faculty, along with a team of fellow top educators, are launching a six-year program to foster interest in higher education teaching positions among the best…

When Darren Goad’s first-born son Joshua, then 2, was diagnosed with autism in 1998, he was angry. “I remember getting angry, and then very sad. I had only known autism…

LOWELL — Police are investigating a violent four-car crash on the VFW Highway that sent several people to hospitals on Thursday night. The crash, reported near the intersection of First…

TEWKSBURY — Police announced the arrest of two men on Tuesday after detectives conducting surveillance in Tewksbury observed an alleged drug deal outside a gas station on Andover Street. According…

Sean Scott tossed an opening day no-hitter, as the Lowell 16U baseball team shutout Methuen 10-0, Thursday, in Northeast Massachusetts Baseball League action. A righthanded hurler, Scott went the distance…

Phone lines lit up, emails flooded inboxes and battles lines were drawn in the wake of Friday’s Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1972 decision that constitutionally…

Morgan Smith didn’t just win her first New England Women’s Amateur championship Wednesday. That would have been impressive enough. The rising 18-year-old star from Westford dominated the field, turning in…

CHELMSFORD — Dean Kelly grew up in Chelmsford as a Disney fanatic. He took annual trips to Disney World during spring break with his family, watched Disney Channel shows and…

TYNGSBORO — Standard & Poor’s rating agency has again awarded the town an AA+ bond rating, the second highest rating a municipality can achieve. Town Administrator Matt Hanson recently announced…

BOSTON — A Level 3 sex offender from Lowell pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to receiving child pornography that he extorted from an 11-year-old Vermont girl through the social…