A fire department, like an insurance policy, can be easy to ignore, especially during times of good fortune. But Amherst’s chronically understaffed fire department was exposed by the Olympia Drive ...

Fall River lawmakers are deferring to the Healey administration for action post-Gabriel House fire, while the state's ...

In Massachusetts, 74 percent of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time.

Within 30 minutes of getting to the scene of the fire that engulfed an apartment building under construction and quickly spread to the occupied five-story Olympia Place, firefighters were certain that ...

On Nov. 7, a three-alarm fire tore through the privately owned Olympia Place apartment complex across the street from the ...

Firefighters in Rockland, Massachusetts said it was the staff who were the "true heroes" after a fire broke out at a nursing ...

The Braintree Fire Department is only the third department in the state to get a new hose that will withstand extreme heat and fire for more than an hour without failure.

HOLYOKE, MA (WGGB/WSHM) - About 15 to 20 people lost their homes on Monday as an apartment building in Holyoke went up in flames. Holyoke fire officials say that they were called to 131 Clemente ...

The Merry Maple celebration is Friday, Dec. 5 from 3-6 p.m. on the Town Common. Besides the lighting, the event includes an open house at the Fire Station, crafts with the Jones Library and Recreation ...

The residents were able to evacuate, however two people were taken to a hospital to be treated for injuries.

The Prudential Committee last week took the first step in selling off the current fire station property on Water Street.

Food trucks may soon roll into Belchertown on more days than Food Truck Fridays. The Select Board began developing a policy to allow food trucks on public property at its Nov. 17 meeting. In August, ...