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7+ hour, 20+ min ago   (497+ words) WORCESTER - A fried chicken chain with over 1,000 locations across the country will celebrate the grand opening of its first Worcester-area location on Thursday. Chester's, a fried chicken company out of Alabama, launched a soft opening of its new location at…...

47+ min ago   (354+ words) In the end, a vote restricting residential development height seemed almost perfunctory, as Cambridge city councillors voted unanimously and without debate at Monday night’s meeting to allow maximum heights along two city corridors only for buildings with “active use” spaces…...

8+ hour, 54+ min ago   (253+ words) Healey proposed providing free home visits by nurses to all parents with newborns as well as updated regulations governing mental health screening of new mothers. “To every mom who has struggled with her mental health before, during or after pregnancy,…...

1+ hour, 59+ min ago   (181+ words) Armsby Abbey, a Downtown Worcester restaurant known for its extensive beer selection and farm-to-table menu, is up for sale. An online listing with an asking price of $995,000 advertises the restaurant as a unique opportunity to buy an established hospitality business…...

19+ hour, 49+ min ago   (372+ words) Massachusetts fell just outside the top 10 happiest states in a new 2026 ranking, landing at No. 13 overall. WalletHub's annual Happiest States in America report ranked all 50 states using measures tied to emotional and physical well-being, work environment, financial security, and community…...

21+ min ago   (215+ words) Two men were fishing from a canoe on Lowes Pond in Oxford, Massachusetts, on Sunday evening when the boat overturned, leaving one of them dead. Police received a 911 call after one of the men emerged from the woods near a…...

28+ min ago   (299+ words) The 22-year-old woman had arrived on Nantucket on June 1 to begin working for the Nantucket Launch Company, according to legal filings cited by the Globe. Nantucket Launch Company owner Max Shapiro, 24, had arranged for her to live aboard Williams's yacht…...

42+ min ago   (268+ words) A 37-year-old motorcyclist was killed Thursday night after his motorcycle crossed into the westbound lane of Route 202 in Granby and collided with a tractor-trailer truck. The crash happened around 11:30 p.m. near 201 West State Street, and the rider was pronounced dead at…...

42+ min ago   (160+ words) The law placed Cape Cod Bay under statutory protections barring new industrial waste discharges into state ocean waters, making it one of the state's ocean sanctuaries, per the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. The dispute also involved Holtec's preemption arguments....

42+ min ago   (133+ words) Boston police ran 45 Flock Safety license plate cameras across the city for a free five-month pilot, and within three days, outside law enforcement agencies were already able to access the vehicle data those cameras collected — despite a contract that specifically…...