Josh Kraft had harshly criticized the policies of Mayor Michelle Wu, a fellow Democrat, but his message did not resonate with voters.
The Trump administration had imposed conditions on grants awarded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development that critics viewed as overtly political.
Maine’s Board of Pesticides Control says two summer residents poisoned a neighbor’s trees so the couple, both Martha Stewart associates, could have a harbor view. They deny it.
After 26 years in character as the 19th-century transcendentalist writer, Richard Smith is hanging up his straw hat.
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Focusing on a small group of offenders is more effective than sweeping crackdowns.
The two top vote-getters on Tuesday will compete in November. They are expected to be Mayor Michelle Wu and Josh Kraft, a political newcomer and a son of the New England Patriots owner.
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Fitting into a small home means clever transformations, custom storage solutions, and often, bright pops of color. These homes do it all.
The immigration crackdown is expected to last several weeks, sources with knowledge of the operation said.
Many students were cautiously hopeful after a judge said the Trump administration could not freeze research funding to the university. But they also had other things on their minds.
On Sept. 24, the Times will host leaders, policymakers and executives in frank discussions about a consequential year in the fight against climate change.
The former senator has been out of office for more than 15 years, but his last name is synonymous with Republican politics in a state where party leaders see a chance to flip a seat.
The behavior of the gunman, an Army Reservist, had worried colleagues and supervisors for months before he killed 18 people at a bar and bowling alley.
Dan Kleban enters a crowded Democratic primary as party leaders wait for Maine’s Democratic governor, Janet Mills, who is “seriously considering” a run for Senate.
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Before his car crash, the former mayor of New York City was taking in a minor-league baseball game in Manchester, N.H., a city where he’s been known to enjoy a good cigar.
Giuliani, exalcalde de Nueva York y abogado del presidente Trump, sufrió una fractura de vértebra cuando un vehículo chocó contra el suyo el sábado.
Rudolph W. Giuliani was injured Saturday night when the vehicle he was riding in was rear-ended on a New Hampshire highway.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York and lawyer for President Trump, suffered a fractured vertebra when a vehicle slammed into his car on Saturday.
Mr. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and lawyer for President Trump, suffered a fractured vertebra, his head of security said.
The NextGen high-speed trains feel more like those in China, Japan or France. But topping out at 160 m.p.h., they’re still relatively slow.
Last spring, when we recommended five state parks to visit, readers told us we had missed some of their favorites. So here are a few you wanted us to share.
They met in an online book group. They traveled to a remote corner of Maine to read together. It was oddly moving.
The agency said a proposal to get rid of 350 navigational buoys from Maine to New Jersey made sense after decades of advancement in electronic navigation tools.
More Americans are choosing burials in which everything is biodegradable.
The order to stop construction on Revolution Wind off the coast of Rhode Island is part of a campaign against renewable energy.
He used animation and other media to create worlds inhabited by anthropomorphic machines and industrious creatures. One curator described his work as “Narnia on acid.”
“I don’t think it’s time to push the panic button yet,” an expert said, after rising reports of swarms and stings for beachgoers in parts of the Eastern Seaboard.
Caprio, un juez municipal jubilado, adquirió popularidad en las redes sociales por fragmentos virales de su programa de telerrealidad que, según los espectadores, mostraban su compasión en los tribunales.
Judge Caprio, a retired municipal judge in Rhode Island, became a social media star for courtroom videos that viewers said showed his compassion in the courtroom.
Can you recognize a gerrymander?
One town’s effort to make pricey items accessible and encourage people to buy less stuff seems to be catching on.
States from Florida to Maine are bracing for potentially life-threatening surf and rip currents as Hurricane Erin brushes past the East Coast.
The storm’s center will stay offshore, but it will bring dangers to the coast.
Democrats hope to recruit Governor Janet Mills to challenge the powerful Republican senator, but an oyster farmer with a working man’s pitch thinks he has a better chance.
Vying for social influence and top-tier gossip in the Hamptons? The Romans were just like you — but they liked drowning people for fun more, too.
Here’s what states need to do: Buy renewables now while the discount is still available.
A federal grand jury in Vermont indicted Teresa Youngblut, 21, on murder and other charges, seven months after a violent encounter during a traffic stop.
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.