How much water does a dog need to drink? Dog Lover DEAR DOG LOVER: Figure that a good rule of thumb is that a dog will need about an ounce of fluid per pound of body weight. A dog ...

Will Massachusetts become the first state to ban future generations from buying tobacco or nicotine products, even if that prohibition removes an adult’s freedom of choice and negatively impacts ...

The 38th annual Lowell Folk Festival is now less than a week away, and with it comes a diverse lineup of performances taking place across the three-day event. To Festival Director Lee ...

Looking for a pet without the real-life responsibilities? Well then the Tamagotchi electronic pet from Bandai was for you. Consumers were hooked on the egg-shaped plastic toy that first launched in ...

The state of New York agreed Friday to pay $450,000 to settle a lawsuit from an ex-aide to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo who ...

Pleas for additional road repair funds are a familiar refrain among municipal officials in this state. That’s because almost every municipal leader would agree that the state has shortchanged ...

Ignorance or the willful violation of a judicial process that relies on secrecy to fulfill its duty? The Boston Globe ...

This is the time of year when a lot of turtles are out and about at Coggshall Park, and plenty of other wild creatures can ...

The word inertia has two different definitions, even though they really are the same. The first is a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged. The second is a physics definition, “a property ...

I propose that this week, we all try to play journalist as we engage with social media platforms and conversations with ...

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — When the running gets hard in this desert dubbed “hell on Earth,” Danny Westergaard tells himself: “Slow and steady” or “smooth as butter.” ...

The owner of a factory where six workers died last year in flooding from Hurricane Helene won’t face charges after a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation found no criminal wrongdoing. First Judicial ...