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After spending weeks in an intensive care unit and a physical rehabilitation facility, firefighter Nick Spinale is back in Chelmsford to continue his rehab progress at home with a hope of eventually ...

Another local election in Chelmsford has come and gone, and many candidates were reelected. And to them I  extend my ...

All my life I have been told that I have a soft heart. I think that was always the way it’s been however now I wonder if ...

A Hudson man is facing 36 charges after police say he spent part of the early‑morning hours Wednesday entering multiple ...

Lowell held its Spring Busker Festival on Saturday, with many people turning out despite it being a dreary rainy day.

A new international partnership took shape inside Lowell City Hall on Friday as Lord Mayor of Cork, Ireland Fergal Dennehy ...

LOWELL — In the days since a wind‑driven blaze damaged six homes in Centralville, the scale of the destruction has come into focus — not just in charred structures and lost belongings, but in the ...

According to the Taxpayers Foundation’s analysis, the income tax rate reduction would lead to about $400 per year in savings for lower wage families, $1,000 in savings for a family with the median ...

Derry, like some other New Hampshire communities, has now decided to start school later in the day. Manchester is considering ...

Thanks to Nicholas Solorzano, UMass Lowell’s bus ride back to campus from Orono, Maine was an enjoyable one Sunday.

Shawsheen Valley Technical Vocational High School dominated the discussion at Tewksbury’s annual Town Meeting Monday evening ...