Labor Day

Boston’s mayoral candidates took turns speaking — just over a week before the race’s crucial primary election — followed by national politicians like Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Ayanna Pressley

President Joe Biden has marked Labor Day by delivering deli sandwiches to union members in his home state of Delaware

Heading down the cape for Labor Day weekend is a New England tradition. Unfortunately, so is traffic on the way back home on Monday. That particular tradition was definitely being observed on Labor Day 2021. Cape Cod traffic stretched back from the Sagamore Bridge about eight miles along Route 6, into East Sandwich. The back-up almost reached West Barnstable about…

Monday is the end of a three-day weekend for many and our sun is seeking to fill the skies above New England. We had some showers overnight and woke up with lingering activity, but the skies have continued clearing — rain chances will be focused in the northern portions of the region. It will remain a pleasant afternoon, and we’ll…

Monday, Labor Day: Mostly sunny, highs in the low 80s, dew points in the 60s. Monday night: Clear, lows in the low 60s. Tuesday: Sunny, upper 70s, wind from west 6-8 mph.

Monday, Labor Day: Mostly sunny, highs in the low 80s, dew points in the 60s. Monday night: Clear, lows in the low 60s. Tuesday: Sunny, upper 70s, wind from west 6-8 mph.

The slow-moving front that brought us a mostly gray Sunday is pushing east and out to sea on Monday, Labor Day. That means improving weather for areas that are still seeing a few showers in eastern New England in the morning. Much less humid air is working in from the northwest, with increasing sunshine and temperatures pretty close to 80…

Monday, Labor Day: Mostly sunny, highs in the low 80s, dew points in the 60s. Monday night: Clear, lows in the low 60s. Tuesday: Sunny, upper 70s, wind from west 6-8 mph.

On what’s traditionally one of the sleepiest weekends at the movies, the Marvel film “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” smashed the record for Labor Day openings with an estimated $71.4 million in ticket sales.

Labor Day 2021 represents a perilous crossroads for millions of Americans

Labor Day weekend marks an unofficial end to the summer, and tourist-dependant businesses are reflecting on an unusual season.

The labor holiday is more than cookouts and a time to stop wearing white.

The CDC is encouraging people who aren’t vaccinated to hold off traveling this Labor Day Weekend

Friday night: clearing skies, low in mid 50s, west wind around 7 mph. Saturday: mostly sunny skies, highs in upper 70s to 80, west wind around 9 mph.

Alert: pumpkin spice latte weather is incoming!   We’re getting a short taste of fall, with temperatures starting to drop into the 60s and our relative humidity remaining low as we end meteorological summer (unofficial summer). Looking at the calendar, you can still call it summer until Sept. 22.  The pick of the weekend? I would say it’s Saturday. It...

Labor Day travelers looking for a last summer getaway are at least as eager, or more, to hit the road as they were during other long holiday weekends this year.

Ahead of Labor Day weekend, Maine only has a few dozen intensive care unit beds available at its hospitals. Somewhere around 40 of the state’s total ICU beds were available as of Thursday, with Maine’s recent total ICU bed number fluctuating between 320-340. “We’re at least two weeks behind the rest of the country when it comes to what...

Maine hospitals are warning travelers of rising COVID cases and a shortage of ICU beds ahead of Labor Day weekend.

Learn about the history of Labor Day and how it became the celebration it is today.

Two men found dead on the side of a New Hampshire road this week have been identified as a 69-year-old man and his 22-year-old grandson who went missing while on a Labor Day motorcycle ride, police said Friday. According to Boscawen police, Jerry Proper was riding a Honda trike with his grandson, Cody Pillsbury, as his passenger on Monday when…