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By all appearances, Mike and Catherine “Kitty” Burke would make the perfect foster parents. They were open to taking on siblings and had experience with special needs children — for a state like Massachusetts, overwhelmed…

by Madeleine Hubbard   The person responsible for leaking sensitive Pentagon documents is reportedly a 21-year-old intelligence member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard named Jack Teixeira. Two…

The Woburn Teachers Association in Massachusetts, a local affiliate of the National Education Association (NEA), has created a GoFundMe page to solicit cash in order to pay about $300,000 in fines with which it was penalized following…

Alan DiPietro is an alpaca farmer in the town of Bolton, Massachusetts (pop: 5,376). He lives in an RV on the 34-acre property where he keeps his alpacas, and he sells their fleece to make a living. DiPietro wasn’t always a farmer. He…

by Brent Addleman   Outgoing Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has already found a landing spot for his post-political career. The second-term Republican governor has been named as the next president of the National Collegiate Athletics…

Massachusetts is on course to elect its first woman and first gay governor after Maura Healey won the Democratic primary on Tuesday and a Trump-backed candidate, Geoff Diehl, won the Republican contest to face her.Healey, the state…

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health said a second human case of West Nile virus has been reported in the state this year.A man in his 70s was exposed to the virus in Suffolk County in an area already known to be at…

Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka quashed staffers’ months-long unionization push on Thursday, with just three days remaining in the legislative session.The blow to Senate staffers, who urged the Ashland Democrat to give them a…

Eight new cases of monkeypox in adult males were identified within the past week, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health said.The DPH said the total number of monkeypox cases in Massachusetts is now 21 since the first case…

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health says there are two additional cases of monkeypox in the state.The monkeypox cases are in two adult men who had close contact with each other, the DPH announced Sunday.According to the…