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A tiny home in a wealthy Boston suburb has sold after about a month on the market, albeit for far less than the original asking price of almost $450,000. The roughly 250-square-foot (23-square-meter) home in Newton sold on Monday for $315,000, according to Coldwell Banker Realty’s Hans Brings Results agency. The home, on a 0.06-acre lot (0.02 hectares), went on…

The tiny home sold for under asking price but still with a big price tag.

A Newton City Council candidate claims an email and flyer aligning him with former President Donald Trump cost him the election.

A single-vehicle rollover crash is causing delays on the Massachusetts Turnpike on Wednesday morning. The crash occurred around 8:30 a.m. on Interstate 90 westbound at the 127 mile marker in Newton, state police said. No injuries were reported. One lane of traffic is moving at this time.

Concerned parents in Newton, Massachusetts, are speaking out after a suspicious man approached a child Monday morning. A man in a red pickup truck approached a 13-year-old middle school student around 7 a.m. Monday while she walked to her bus stop near Lexington Street and River Street. Police say the man first asked the child if she wanted a ride….

Newton police have welcomed an adorable new member to the team: its first service puppy.

Cambridge is the latest Massachusetts city to announce a mask mandate in all indoor public spaces. The city said Friday an emergency order would require masks to be worn indoors anywhere accessible to the general public beginning Sept. 3. “I am grateful to everyone in Cambridge who has taken our public health guidance seriously, gotten vaccinated, and done their part…

Beginning next week, masks will be required in all indoor public spaces in Newton, Massachusetts. Mayor Ruthanne Fuller announced Thursday that the mask mandate would go into effect on Sept. 2. It impacts all indoor settings accessible to the public. At restaurants and bars, customers will be allowed to be maskless “while seated and actively eating or drinking,” Fuller said…

One person has died as the result of a motorcycle crash in Newton, Massachusetts late Friday. Massachusetts State Police confirmed that a single motorcyclist, who’d been traveling northbound on Interstate 95 in Newton, was involved in a multi-vehicle crash Friday. Officers first responded to the scene around 9:30 p.m. Friday. The motorcyclist, a 32-year-old man from Ludlow, Massachusetts, was transported…

Police are investigating after a man was caught on camera fighting officers after being stopped while driving in Newton, Massachusetts.

The victim in one of two anti-Asian hate incidents in Newton, Massachusetts, is speaking out as police investigate the crimes that occurred within a 24-hour-period. The victim, who did not want to be identified, had her “Stop Asian Hate” sign removed from her lawn Wednesday morning. She said a neighbor watched someone throw it into the street. “It’s very...

Authorities in Newton, Massachusetts, are investigating two anti-Asian hate incidents.

Authorities in Newton, Massachusetts, are investigating two anti-Asian hate incidents. Both incidents happened within a 24-hour period, Mayor Ruthanne Fuller said in a statement Wednesday. In one case, a jogger removed a “Stop Asian Hate” sign from a lawn and threw it in the street. In the other, paint was removed from an exhibit at Newton Out Doors that depicted…

Newton’s Gevvie Stone and Weston’s Kristi Wagner, two Mass. rowers, will hit the water at the Tokyo Olympics under the watchful eye of their coach — who is the father of one of the athletes.

Police are searching for a person connected to a string of break-ins in Newton, in which all the victims are of Asian descent – though it’s not clear if they were targeted for that.

Police in Newton are telling people to lock their doors in response to five home break-ins over the past month, all victims of which were of Asian descent. Police have released images from video surveillance that show the same person pictured at the time of the break-ins on June 19 on Dedham Street and June 20 on Helene Road.

Police in Newton are telling people to lock their doors in response to five home break-ins, of which all victims were Asian residents, over the past month.

A nearly 70-year-old Massachusetts bicycle sales and repair shop has closed, a victim of the pandemic and a changing business landscape, according to its founder. Harris Cyclery in Newton closed its doors for good on June 13, The Boston Globe reported. Closing the family-owned business was like experiencing a death in the family, said Aaron “Sonny” Harris, who founded the…

Two swastikas drawn with feces were found in a high school bathroom in Newton, Massachusetts, while the MCAS test was being administered Thursday. Police say the anti-Semitic markings were each about three inches tall in a boys’ room at Newton South High School. A student discovered them around noon Thursday. Custodians removed the hate symbols. Police said that because the…

A black SUV wound up stuck on the grass near the sixth hole at a country club in Newton, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, according to the Newton Police Department.