The Big E kicks off its 17-day run Friday at the fairgrounds in West Springfield. The event regularly attracts around 1.5 million visitors, and that's a whole lot of vehicles.

Dianne Snyder is one of the 161 victims of the terror attacks with Connecticut ties. They were honored at the state’s annual 9/11 memorial ceremony at Sherwood Island State Park in Westport.

After 40 years, and some 15,000 hours watching the skies, monitoring for dark fins, and rescuing children from riptides, Gordon Miller has become an expert at the art of keeping beachgoers safe. It’s a role that’s sustained and fulfilled him since he arrived on Cape Cod in 1984 at 23 years old.

At The Hip Hop Transformation, young people are given professional tools and guidance to make music — and a crash course in the history of the art.

High school graduate Jay Babina has spent the last four years creating the Westport Tech Museum in his family’s attic. From computers to pie tins, he has more than 400 devices in his collection.

Black business owners say they feel ignored by "best of lists" in mainstream magazines and blogs, which they say impacts their visibility and opportunities for growth.

For the first time in a decade, a panel from the National AIDS Memorial Quilt is back on display at the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod in Provincetown.

New Bedford’s Feast of the Blessed Sacrament, a cultural festival with religious roots, is billed as the largest Portuguese feast in the world. It’s more than a century old, but this year, behind the scenes, something very big is changing. For the first time — and under threat of a lawsuit — women have been allowed to join the Feast Committee.

For decades, most Black and Indigenous maritime histories were missing at Mystic Seaport, the country’s largest maritime museum. “Entwined” aims to change that – by presenting those histories through Native American and Black perspectives.

Fourth of July celebrations in western Massachusetts ranged from parades to historical presentations and fireworks.