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Massachusetts officials have urged residents for months to continue to wear masks outside when unable to practice social distancing. But with the state seeing an uptick in cases, they’re taking their guidance a step further, urging people in hard-hit communities to wear masks at home if they are living with someone with underlying health conditions. “Residents of these higher...

Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday identified four high risk Massachusetts cities and towns that will be the focus of his new COVID Enforcement and Intervention Team. Chelsea, Everett, Lynn and Revere are included in the high risk category, meaning they have over eight cases per 100,000 residents. Twenty-nine other communities, including Auburn, Belchertown, Boston, Brockton, Charlton, Chicopee, Fall River, Framingham,…

Officer Luis Tarraza was just starting his shift on Sunday morning when he got a call about a woman who refused to leave a hotel. It’s a call he gets often, he said, and thought he knew what he was going to walk into. When we got there, he found a woman who he estimated was in her 60’s....

When an older homeless woman said she didn’t have any money and nowhere to go, Chelsea Police Officer Luis Tarraza paid for her to stay the night at a hotel.

For the 14th straight week, the state Department of Public Health released a breakdown of the total number of coronavirus cases in each Massachusetts city and town. Until this week, the state provided data on the communities with the highest rates of cases per 100,000 people. This data was no longer included, but some new information offers a snapshot of…

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story said the building sustained significant structural damage. Officials said the damage is not believed to be significant. A car crashed into a hospital in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on Tuesday morning, forcing the building to be evacuated. Chelsea Fire said the accident occurred sometime after 8 a.m. at the MGH Chelsea HealthCare Center...

Police are looking for the driver involved in an early morning hit-and-run Saturday in Chelsea.

One person was hospitalized after a hit-and-run in Chelsea.

A free coronavirus testing program kicks off Friday in eight communities across Massachusetts that have been hardest hit by COVID-19. Free testing will be provided for the next five weeks in the following hot spot communities: Chelsea, Everett, Fall River, Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, Marlborough, and New Bedford. Governor Charlie Baker said these are the communities where the COVID-19 rate is…

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced a new coronavirus testing initiative for eight communities that have seen high rates of COVID-19 cases in recent weeks. The communities included are Chelsea, Everett, Fall River, Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, Marlborough and New Bedford. New testing sites will be opened and mobile testing vans will be deployed beginning Friday. “We’ve made a lot of...

For the 13th straight week, the state Department of Public Health released a breakdown of the total number of coronavirus cases in each Massachusetts city and town. Among cities and towns with at least 100 cases in total, these 10 communities have the highest percentages of positive cases in the last 14 days: Community Number of Cases Number of People…

Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker announces new testing sites in communities who have seen high rates of coronavirus cases in recent weeks.

For the 12th straight week, the state Department of Public Health released a breakdown of the total number of coronavirus cases in each Massachusetts city and town. Health officials also released data showing which communities had the highest rates of positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people from Jan. 1 through July 1. Below is a list of the 50 Massachusetts…

For the 11th straight week, the state Department of Public Health released a breakdown of the total number of coronavirus cases in each Massachusetts city and town. Health officials also released data showing which communities had the highest rates of positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people from Jan. 1 through June 24. Below is a list of the 50 Massachusetts…

For the 10th straight week, the state Department of Public Health released a breakdown of the total number of coronavirus cases in each Massachusetts city and town. Health officials also released data showing which communities had the highest rates of positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people from Jan. 1 through June 17. Below is a list of the 50 Massachusetts…

It was a visit more than three months in the making. Ninety-five-year-old George Desiderio, who lives at the Soldiers’ Home in Chelsea, Massachusetts, was allowed to visit with family for the first time since March. “It was a long time coming,” said daughter Karen Leffler. “It’s been a hundred days exactly today since the last time I had the...

For the ninth straight week, the state Department of Public Health released a breakdown of the total number of coronavirus cases in each Massachusetts city and town. Health officials also released data showing which communities had the highest rate of positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people from Jan. 1 through June 10. Below is a list of the 50 Massachusetts…

A Silver Alert has been canceled for a missing Chelsea woman who was found late Tuesday night in Revere, Massachusetts. Esperanza Tenorio, 68, was found by Revere police on Fuller Street, on the Everett line. She was evaluated by EMS and reunited with her family in Revere, police say. Chelsea police had issued an alert for Tenorio after she went…

For the eighth straight week, the state Department of Public Health released a breakdown of the total number of coronavirus cases in each Massachusetts city and town. Health officials also released data showing which communities had the highest rate of positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people from Jan. 1 through June 3. Below is a list of the 50 Massachusetts…

For the seventh straight week, the state Department of Public Health released a breakdown of the total number of coronavirus cases in each Massachusetts city and town. Health officials also released data showing which communities had the highest rate of positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people from Jan. 1 through May 27. Below is a list of the 10 Massachusetts…