Sunshine Stewart, 48, was found dead near 100 Acre Island after disappearing while paddle boarding in Union, Maine.
Will the Republican sprawling policy bill give Democrats a whole new traction in next year’s midterms?
FEMA announced in April that it was ending the funding to eliminate “waste, fraud and abuse.” The program saved taxpayers more than $150 billion over 20 years, the plaintiffs said.
A former employee said she never saw the staff perform fire drills. The local fire chief pushed back at claims that dispatching more firefighters would’ve saved more lives.
Widespread thunderstorms were expected to develop from Northern Virginia to southern New England on Monday.
Inside the efforts to bring down a drug operation that led to shootings in the Bronx and a fatal overdose hundreds of miles away in rural New England.
Firefighters responding to a deadly fire at Gabriel House, an assisted living facility in Fall River, Mass., on Sunday night.
The fire broke out on Sunday in the city of Fall River, a state official said. The exact number of victims was unclear.
A burglar used a hammer to smash open the door of a Massachusetts shop and stole rare Pokémon cards and vintage box sets, a store owner said.
In “Nothing More of This Land,” the journalist Joseph Lee, a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag Nation, explores the island’s Indigenous history.
Whether you want a romance or family drama, she's written a book for you.
Teachers, police officers, firefighters and other workers live in overcrowded and substandard housing, or even in their cars on the beach.
El juez federal reavivó el enfrentamiento legal sobre los esfuerzos del presidente Trump para negar la ciudadanía a los niños nacidos de padres indocumentados.
The heavy rain caused parts of a major highway to be shut down on Thursday. The state’s emergency management agency warned drivers to stay off of flooded roads, where vehicles can be swept away in less than two feet of moving water.
The federal judge reignited the legal standoff over President Trump’s efforts to deny citizenship to children born to undocumented parents.
Traffic was diverted from parts of Interstate 93 as flood warnings were issued for counties in Massachusetts.
Sunshine Stewart, 48, disappeared on the night of July 2 during an outing on Crawford Pond in Union, Maine. Her body was found hours later near an island preserve.
The handwritten resolution, signed by 116 Baptist ministers from Massachusetts who called slavery “repugnant,” was thought to have been lost.
Plus, the big business of youth sports.
A man’s death after using “Flow” in a small Vermont city exposed a drug operation that spanned continents and sent a New York prosecutor on a heartbreaking journey.
The Doris Duke Theater, which burned down in 2020, has been rebuilt as a hub for dance and technology.
The case challenges the Trump administration’s targeting of noncitizen student activists for arrest and deportation on First Amendment grounds.
The latest networks of volunteers are hyperlocal and focused on responding to federal actions. As the crackdown becomes more intense, so could confrontations.
Inspiró al famoso soltero tóxico y empedernido de “Sex and the City” y hace décadas dejó Nueva York en pos de una vida rural.
Displays of patriotism were evident at parades and hot dog eating contests, even at a time of deep political divisions among Americans.
Savoring all things fresh and briny while on a mission to visit all four of Maine’s oyster regions in just one long weekend.
Most people don’t expect to meet an Indigenous person on Martha’s Vineyard.
The New York Times interviewed 16 U.S. mayors about President Trump, immigration and their lives outside City Hall.
Here are six volunteers who make a difference at National Parks and other federal lands, from an 8-year-old who does the weeding to a retired rear admiral who keeps people — and animals — safe.
The real-life inspiration for the famous toxic bachelor on “Sex and the City” left the Big Apple for the Green Mountain state.
A farmhouse in Sedgwick, a foursquare in St. Paul and a Craftsman in Norfolk.
Despite resistance from the medical establishment, he found systemic ways to reduce errors, paving the way for a global standard. Thousands of lives have been saved.
The anniversary festivities included V.I.P. meet-and-greets, book signings, film screenings and lectures about sharks. But for many, the real draw was the island itself.
The couples who exchanged vows in May 2004 helped usher in a period of profound change, leading to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right.
The Vermont Green Football Club champions environmental work and draws sold-out crowds, with the help of free ice cream.
A brutally hot day across the Eastern United States left residents struggling to find relief.
New Hampshire residents pushed back, but lawmakers still plan to decimate the group, which gives grants to theaters and museums.
For 50 years, Norton Owen has connected the past and present at the influential summer festival in the Berkshires.
An architect couple replaced a derelict cabin nestled between a river and a forest and built a second home using Passive House standards.
The film’s release in 1975 haunted the reputation of sharks worldwide. But a generation of scientists helped to turn the tide.
Both sides agreed that the investigation into the death of Ms. Read’s boyfriend, a Boston police officer, was flawed and plagued by unethical and unprofessional conduct.
Readers discuss the reasons for the spike since the pandemic and how to lure students back.
The former superintendent and medical director of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home in Massachusetts were indicted in 2020 on charges of neglect after many residents became sick and died.
Dana L. McIntyre, who owned a pizzeria in a Boston suburb, defrauded the federal government out of more than $660,000, the Justice Department said.
The people who believe he is going to save America.
The state has begun emptying hotels of about 2,800 homeless people living there as part of a pandemic-era program — and offering them tents — after federal funding ran out.
The group liked online war games. But then Jack Teixeira, an active-duty airman, began showing them classified documents, members say.
New York State tax figures show that 1,453 millionaire taxpayers moved away in 2021, while 80,000 remained.
New arrivals over the last few years have fueled hopes of population growth, but workers increasingly struggle to find housing in a market gone wild.
Hospital-at-home care is an increasingly common option, and it is often a safer one for older adults. But the future of the approach depends on federal action.
In a so-called natural experiment, two school districts in Boston maintained masking after mandates had been lifted in others, enabling a unique comparison.
“Govs. Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis are using asylum seekers as political tools,” a reader writes. Also: President Biden and the pandemic; abortion prosecutors; arms for Ukraine.
A signature-matching rule in North Carolina is rejected, mail ballots in Pennsylvania are in dispute, and more.
A signature-matching rule in North Carolina is rejected, mail ballots in Pennsylvania are in dispute, and more.
As the United States marks one million Covid-19 deaths, Times journalists reflect on the one story or moment from the pandemic that will stay with them forever.