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Salem is known for its holiday festivities, but this year, costumes may need to include a negative COVID test to go with the mask.

Health officials in Salem will decide Friday whether to require negative COVID tests before Halloween revelers attend large, ticketed, indoor events this season.

People going to large indoor Halloween events in Salem, Massachusetts, will have to test negative for COVID-19. The Board of Health voted Friday to require anyone attending indoor festivities where there are more than 100 people, regardless of vaccine status, to provide a negative test. The policy will be in effect from Oct. 1 through Nov. 1. The huge crowds…

Halloween revelers would need to test negative for COVID before attending large, ticketed, indoor events in Salem, Massachusetts, this October under a proposal being considered on Friday. The Witch City’s board of health will hold a special meeting on the subject, Mayor Kim Driscoll said in a Facebook post Thursday. “Given what we have seen with the Delta variant...

Two decades after terrorist attacks changed the United States forever, people across Massachusetts and the country will gather to honor the survivors and victims of September 11, 2001, on Saturday.

What started as a project to restore the gravestones of three Black men and women who played a role in the abolitionist movement on the North Shore is evolving into a larger effort to find and restore the final resting places for other African American families, officials said. In Salem’s Howard Street Cemetery, two of the stones marking the...

After three confirmed earthquakes and multiple other mysterious booms, officials sought to calm the shaken community in Peabody, Massachusetts, with a public forum. The forum was held Wednesday evening, with city leaders seeking to educate those with questions about the recent events. Seismologist John Ebel of Boston College, author of “New England Earthquakes: The Surprising History of Seismic Activity in…

The Salem Board of Health is taking action as COVID cases rise and tourism is set to soon spike.

A lawyer for a New Hampshire man charged in a 2017 deadly crime spree in Massachusetts requested separate trials for the alleged crimes on Monday. Brian Brito, 26, faces charges that include first-degree murder in the death of a food delivery man. Police said that the shooting was unprovoked and the result of a “road rage’” incident, The Salem News…

Officials in Salem, Massachusetts, will vote Tuesday on whether to require a citywide mask mandate.

Officials in Salem have voted to institute a citywide mask mandate, making it the latest city in Massachusetts to have such a mandate approved amid the rise of the delta variant. The Salem Board of Health voted unanimously Tuesday night to accept the policy, which will go into effect Aug. 23 and remain in place through Nov. 13 — unless…

The Salem School Committee voted unanimously Monday to accept recommendations calling for students and staff to wear masks for the start of the school year.

All students and teachers in Salem Public Schools will be required to wear a mask for the start of the school year after the school committee voted unanimously Monday to approve the mandatory mask requirement. The school district is also considering having students eat their lunches outdoors, weather permitting. But masks could be required in more places than just schools….

A 13-year-old who went missing after going for a walk with his dog in Salem, Massachusetts, has been found safe in Marblehead, police said. Police had said during the search that Hanson is not from the area and may have gotten lost.

A New Hampshire man has been arrested after crashing into a Salem home, seriously injuring a young girl who was inside at the time. The crash happened Saturday afternoon on Silver Brook Road. A speeding SUV catapulted a granite mailbox post into the home, knocking it off its foundation before the vehicle came to rest on a tree. Days later,…

A young girl was seriously injured after a car crashed into her home in Salem, New Hampshire. You can still see the path of destruction that was left Saturday afternoon on Silver Brook Road, where a speeding SUV catapulted a granite mailbox post into the home, knocking it off its foundation before the vehicle came to rest on a tree….

A New Hampshire girl was flown to a Boston hospital Saturday after a car came crashing into her Salem home, seriously injuring her, officials said. The Salem Police Department received multiple 911 calls around 2 p.m. reporting the crash on Silver Brook Road. According to police and fire officials, a man was driving an Acura RDX when the SUV left…

As small businesses look to fill open positions and recover from the pandemic, the city of Salem, Massachusetts, and the MassHire North Shore Career Center are making it pay to get a job in the Witch City this summer. People hired between June 1 and July 23 for jobs at Salem restaurants, hotels, attractions and retailers with fewer than 25…

A new effort aims to connect people looking for work with businesses in need.

Police in Salem, Massachusetts, are looking for an archer who has been shooting arrows at homes, apparently at random. Authorities said the incidents are believed to have taken place at night, and in both South and North Salem. “I came home from work on Tuesday and noticed the one that was sticking inside the room,” said Janice Baldwin, whose house…