For residents of Hamilton and Wenham, where Proposition 2 1/2 overrides are as much a sign of spring as the arrival of Baltimore orioles and yellow warblers, the findings of a committee charged with tracking spending by the regional school district has provided kindling for an already hot debate over education costs.

A state commission named Swampscott Town Administrator Andrew Maylor the new chairman of the Essex Regional Retirement Board yesterday, replacing the embattled Timothy Bassett.

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What does the Malden Senior Center have in common with the fastest-growing workout program in the world? Everything.

Paul Gendron of Peabody was recently elected to the board of directors at Bridgewell, a private nonprofit based in Lynnfield that provides services to adults with disabilities.

It's not the billions of dollars in federal spending the late Illinois Sen. Everett Dirkson so famously lampooned.

After Tiger gave his emotional speech on Friday, many Massachusetts residents don't think that he is out of the woods just yet.

In this Feb. 1, 2010 file photo, a worker completes a fuel delivery at gas pumps in Lynnfield, Mass.

Firefighters tackled a one-alarm electrical fire that broke out in a King Street home around 4:30 p.m. yesterday.

A Marblehead man who was seriously injured when the car his drunken friend was driving crashed on Route 1 last year is suing that friend and the Cabaret Lounge for serving them too much beer before the crash.

U.S. wholesale prices shot up at double the expected pace in January, propelled higher by big increases in energy costs.

Maine dairy farmers hope their new organic milk, called MOOMilk, becomes as popular among natural-food buffs as Maine lobster is among seafood lovers.

Oil prices ended the week at the lowest level in nearly two months, weighed down by a stronger dollar and persistent doubts about the health of the global economy.

A funeral home under court order to stage back-to-back graveside services for a Lynnfield mother's warring families scrambled like Hollywood set designers yesterday to remove all traces of one send-off before relatives showed up for the next one.

G loucester's teen baby mama drama has become fodder for another film. A new documentary gets up close and personal with eight of the seaside city's young moms and probes whether or not a pregnancy pact ever existed.