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Responding to the recent spike in gas prices, U.S. Rep. Ed Markey urged the Obama administration to release oil from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to combat rising fuel costs.

Following the collapse of a corrugated metal pipe that created a 5- by 4-foot sinkhole in Tri Street last Thursday, the Department of Public Works has patched the hole with a metal plate until the pipe is replaced.

Fire investigators determined an unattended candle started the four-alarm fire at the Park Village Apartments on East Main Street in Westborough yesterday, said Westborough fire investigator Carl Rand.

An informational meeting last night for members of the Boston Carmen's Union turned ugly after some members argued...

EASTHAMPTON - An Easthampton man has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in the death of his girlfriend, who...

Boston College is challenging a federal judge's order to hand over interviews with seven former Irish Republican...

TOWNSEND -- There will be an ACT/SAT information night at Townsend Public Library on Wednesday, Feb. 29, from 7 to 8 p.

LEOMINSTER -- The Planning Board was unable to reach a quorum and canceled its meeting Tuesday evening.

LOWELL -- The state's former corrections commissioner is blasting a proposed bill that could restrict parole and increase sentences for three-time convicted felons, saying the law is too broad and an overreaction to high-profile crimes.

This time each year, municipal officials typically bemoan the winter weather as their snow removal budgets start running low, or even run out.

Most people are delighted about the unseasonably mild temperatures that might result in the warmest winter on record for the state, but there is also a down side.

WASHINGTON - An unmistakable dynamic is playing out in the money game among Republican presidential candidates: New "super" political action committees are growing more powerful than the campaigns they support.