After sitting empty for nearly two years, three former Becker College dormitories in Leicester are being renovated to serve a new purpose as a family shelter. The town, the state’s Executive Office of ...

As Marie Ramos carried boxes up to apartment 4L on the fourth floor, her new neighbors periodically stopped her. “Are you moving in?” Ramos remembered them asking. After she told them she was, they ...

Jose Colon had spent just 17 days in Massachusetts when he shot and killed State Police Trooper George Hanna on the night of Feb. 26, 1983, after being pulled over in Auburn on the way to a liquor ...

A teenager who ran away following her mother’s arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Worcester has been found, according to the Worcester Police Department. Worcester Police Sgt.

A well-known Massachusetts immigration attorney says federal agents cornered him at Logan International Airport earlier this week and confiscated his phone without justification, according to a ...

There’s a plan in place to remove school resource officers from Worcester Public Schools come January, but Superintendent Maureen Binienda told MassLive that a fight at one high school on Friday shows ...

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester announced a hiring freeze, spending freeze and rescinded admissions for one of its biomedical science doctorate programs this week, citing ongoing uncertainty ...

Two teenage daughters of a Brazilian mother of three arrested by federal immigration officers in Worcester have been reported missing — but a family lawyer said Thursday that one of them has moved to ...

Worcester Mayor Joseph Petty is asking City Manager Eric Batista and Police Chief Saucier to draft a policy for how city officials interact with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Petty’s ...

Redemption Rock Brewery in Worcester is closing its doors at the end of the month. The brewery announced the news on social media, citing a lack of growth as the reason for its closure. Redemption ...

Community Healthlink, an organization that provides mental health, addiction and homelessness services in Worcester, will lay off 80 employees as it closes admissions to three inpatient programs ...

Worcester’s planning board on Wednesday unanimously approved a site plan for a 197-unit apartment complex near Polar Park, despite residents’ concerns over a lack of affordable housing being built.