Her challenge to official doctrine threatened to tear the Massachusetts Bay Colony apart. Hutchinson's experience speaks to a persistent question: What is the source of religious authority?

He arrived in America with the Puritans in 1624 and helped co-found the settlement of Merrymount, which is now Quincy, ...

Anniversaries are a time to look back, to celebrate milestones and achievements; it is also a time to remember the misfortunes and hardships that some of the members of our society experienced leading ...

Drive-thru coffee chain 7 Brew will be opening its second Connecticut location late next month in the bustling Tri-City Plaza, located at 35 Talcottville Road in Vernon. This is the company’s 343rd ...

Waterbirds have seen a resurgence thanks to Gould Island's private nature, but efforts to open the island to recreation has ...

Kseniia Petrova, a bioinformatician at the Kirschner Lab at Harvard Medical School, was detained at the U.S. border on ...

Well, it's rare for a state to declare itself as a sanctuary, though Oregon declared it in 1987, and California's Governor ...

The Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have partnered to start a program ...

Researchers are listening for right whales off the coast of Massachusetts with the help of two new high-tech buoys.

Six years ago, artist Sarah Boardman drew criticism for the “neutral” take on Donald Trump. This week, Trump himself went ...

Massachusetts is 16th on the list of states with the highest percentage of bridges rated "poor."Out of the nearly 5,000 bridges in the Bay State, 24% are in good condition, compared to 41% ...