PUBLIC SAFETY

Allowing underage people to consume alcohol at home or providing it, as well as marijuana, is illegal under Massachusetts state law.

Tal Kopan is deputy Washington bureau chief for the Boston Globe.

A suspect has been identified in the Saturday night shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner. President Trump and several cabinet members were safely rushed from the event.

The department is cutting 50 positions that provide support to local police, while paring back their Marine Patrol and Drone Units.

Drivers in Springfield and across western Massachusetts are feeling the effects of a cold and icy winter on city and town roads.

The professor said her teaching assistant was leading the review session when a shooter entered a lecture hall and opened fire. The professor herself was not there.

Two apartment fires in Holyoke, Mass., in two days have displaced dozens of residents, according to city officials.

Boston Globe meteorologist Ken Mahan says we haven't seen this type of cold snap happen this early since the 1960s.

Union fire fighters in Amherst, Massachusetts, are calling on town management to fully staff the department, after last week's blaze that destroyed an apartment building, displacing 232 people.

The Friday night fire in Amherst, Massachusetts, that destroyed a four story building under construction and an adjacent 75-unit apartment complex still wasn't fully extinguished by Sunday afternoon. In all, 230 UMass students and two others lost their housing, their belongings— but officials said no one was injured.