Memorial Day Weekend

Airports and roads in New England are set for a busy holiday weekend, and likely summer, as people look forward to enjoying themselves with warmer weather arriving. Nationwide, AAA predicts that 42.3 million Americans will be traveling 50 miles or more from home for Memorial Day Weekend, marking a 7% increase over last year. “Massachusetts will be joining the many…

Triple A is predicting 42.3 million Americans will be traveling 50 miles or more for Memorial Day Weekend.

Airports and roads in New England are set for a busy holiday weekend, and likely summer, as people look forward to enjoying themselves with warmer weather arriving. Nationwide, AAA predicts that 42.3 million Americans will be traveling 50 miles or more from home for Memorial Day Weekend, marking a 7% increase over last year. “Massachusetts will be joining the many…

Gas prices in Massachusetts have once again hit a record high, well above the national average.

Gas prices in Massachusetts hit a new record high overnight after the busiest Memorial Day Weekend for travel in the past two years. A gallon of regular gas is now $4.76 per gallon, up from $4.73 on Tuesday. Massachusetts is still well above the national average of $4.67 per gallon, according to AAA Northeast. The price hike comes right after…

A 4-year-old boy drowned at a pool in Brookline, Massachusetts, on Memorial Day, police announced. According to Brookline police, the boy was swimming with several children in the pool when the drowning happened, and several adults were “in very close proximity.” First responders were called to the Prescott Street home after the little boy was found unresponsive in the water…

Events from somber tributes to the pomp and circumstance of parades and processions through the streets are happening today.

Sun and humidity through the day with highs touching 90s. Clouds move in later tonight with shower chances for Tuesday.

On this Memorial Day weekend, many took in an incredible display surrounding the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Boston Common, where there are more than 37,000 flags planted to honor the ultimate sacrifice made by servicemen and women from Massachusetts since the Revolutionary War. Several events were also held Monday to mark Memorial Day throughout the Commonwealth. Gov. Charlie Baker…

Multiple events in forms of parades, vigils and more take place across Massachusetts.

We’re in the home stretch of the Memorial Day weekend holiday and ending it on a hot and humid note. Other than some early morning fog across some coastal areas and interior valleys, much of Monday will be bright and sunny, so grab that sunscreen if heading to the beaches or pools!  High pressure south of the region will...

More than 900 flights were canceled today, on top of the already over 3,500 flights canceled since Friday.

Hundreds of flights worldwide were canceled by Sunday evening, adding to the mounting number of scrubbed flights during the busy Memorial Day holiday weekend in the U.S.

Tom Cruise got his first $100 million opening weekend with “Top Gun: Maverick.” Paramount Pictures said Sunday that in its first three days in North American theaters, “Top Gun: Maverick” earned an estimated $124 million in ticket sales.

Thousands of runners took off Sunday morning in Boston’s Run to Remember, a Memorial Day weekend tradition that honors fallen first responders. The race returned to the city’s Seaport district after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19 precautions, with runners given the option of running either a 5-mile route or a half marathon. The race started with speakers reading...

Airline travelers are not only facing sticker shock this Memorial Day weekend.

A storm system moving from the west to the northeast is to be of concern, with damaging wind gusts and hail possible along with the storm. Staying sheltered at this time is highly advised as the storm passes through the region.

Severe thunderstorm warnings were in place Saturday afternoon in parts of central and western Massachusetts and northern Connecticut, but have since expired. A tree came down on a vehicle on Montebello Road in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood, but authorities have not said whether it was weather-related. We were under First Alert Saturday afternoon because of potential strong cells moving...

The remains of a Revolutionary War soldier are being moved to another resting place in Vermont this Memorial Day weekend because erosion threatens some of the graves at an old cemetery near a river bank. Revolutionary War soldier Josiah Clark, who fought in the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts, was buried in the Stow cemetery in Weybridge in…

Military family members share why the somber holiday is one of the most painful days of the year and should not be marked by celebratory wishes.