Supreme Court Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald’s leave begins immediately, the court announced on Friday. No reason was provided.

Summer camps are all about embracing the outdoors. But as climate change fuels dangerous heat and unhealthy air, the outdoors is becoming something camps must protect children from.

A native of Springfield, Massachusetts, is building what she says is the region's first alumni organization for Historically Black Colleges and Universities or HBCUs.

The Atlantic Shark Institute placed a data-gathering tag on a hammerhead shark for the first time. And the encounter off Block Island was caught on video

The Afrikaners are expected to settle in Vermont before the end of September as a result of an executive order signed last year by President Donald Trump.

Benthic cyanobacteria bloom underwater and appear much more toxic than the kind that float on the surface.

A new show, ‘Overthrow the Citadel!’, reflects the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art’s mission of connecting working-class youth to a highbrow art world beyond Fall River

Can reusing older buildings help fight the housing crisis? The Boston Society of Architects says yes. The group recently published its first-ever guidebook to adaptive reuse, and the guide focuses entirely on the Cape and Islands.

The New England coast used to be crowded with wild oyster reefs. But the reefs have been decimated by overfishing, pollution, development and climate change. Aran Mooney, who studies underwater acoustics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, is researching whether sound can help with efforts to restore oyster beds

Layoffs of Haitian workers could impact the continuity and quality of care for people who benefit from human service programs.

A project launched Wednesday by the Green Ribbon Commission is looking into the feasibility of thermal energy networks to heat and cool some of the area's largest buildings.

A non-profit wholesaler outside of Boston, Massachusetts, on a mission to sustain farms and provide access to fresh food, has completed the next step in what they say is a much-needed cold-storage facility.