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A Massachusetts fire department’s headquarters are uninhabitable due to safety concerns. Plymouth firefighters cannot go back to their headquarters because the building is falling apart.

A public meeting is planned for next week to discuss what the road to the Killington ski area will look like in future years. The Killington Pico Area Association is holding a meeting on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

A Maine town is getting ready to part ways with a furry friend. Officials have decided to auction off a moose head that’s been mounted on a wall in the Eliot, Maine, town office for years. The moose is roughly 100 years old.

People in Mechanic Falls, Maine, are looking for answers after their town manager was fired and their town clerk was escorted out by police.

Residents of a Maine community are looking for answers after their town manager was voted out of office and police escorted a town clerk out of her office. Town Manager Zakk Maher was put on administrative leave after he was voted out. Days later, Miranda Hinkley, a town clerk, was forced to leave the town office.

A major change is coming for the 1,000,000 or so annual visitors to Maine’s oldest and most photographed lighthouse. Starting this summer, folks heading to Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth’s Fort Williams Park will be paying for parking.

A youth baseball field in Vermont’s Windsor County, which was modeled after Fenway Park in Boston, is rebuilding following damaging flash flooding last week. Runaway water from the Black River, swollen by heavy rain and melting snow at the time, washed out the clay from the base paths, dumped silt in center field, left debris everywhere, and knocked down a...

The state is granting the six Cape Cod towns nearly $400,000 to use for shark safety preparedness and response programs ahead of the 2019 summer season. Chatham town manager Jill Goldsmith and Provincetown town manager David Panagore worked together to prepare for the summer and requested the state for assistance. Now, the Cape towns will receive a $383,000 grant to increase beachgoers’ safety.

The new honorary mayor of Fair Haven, Vermont — a 3-year-old goat named Lincoln — was officially sworn into office this week. Lincoln was dressed in a sash reading “Mayor” for the Tuesday ceremony at the Fair Haven town offices. Town Clerk Suzanne Dechame and the select board were present to deliver the oath of office. Fair Haven, a town...

The new honorary mayor of Fair Haven, Vermont — a 3-year-old goat named Lincoln — was officially sworn into office this week. Lincoln was dressed in a sash reading “Mayor” for the Tuesday ceremony at the Fair Haven town offices. Town Clerk Suzanne Dechame and the select board were present to deliver the oath of office. Fair Haven, a town...

Vermont’s attorney general is urging a review of a police department’s practices following its handling of reports of racial harassment against the state’s only black female lawmaker, who later resigned.

A 3-year-old Nubian goat is poised to become the first honorary pet mayor of the small Vermont town of Fair Haven.

Authorities in Foxboro, Massachusetts, are pushing for changes to the way police respond to allegations of sexual abuse involving children. Foxboro Police Chief William Baker admits the two-page proposal he wrote will be met with criticism years after allegations against former teacher William Sheehan.

Leaders in Foxboro are proposing changes to how police respond to allegations of sexual abuse involving children.

After criticism from residents of a Massachusetts town, the state Department of Transportation has begun removing spikes that were recently installed underneath a bridge to keep trespassers away. Crews began removing the several hundred feet of metal spike strips Monday from under a narrow space of a Route 2 bridge in Arlington. A bike/foot path runs under the bridge near...

After criticism from residents in Arlington, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation has removed spikes that were recently installed underneath a bridge to keep trespassers away.

Coastal flooding is often a concern in Scituate, where homeowners have chosen not to move forward with a plan to protect the shoreline.

A Vermont community is at a crossroads, after the gradual departures of all its full-time police officers. Those departures have Randolph now looking into permanently disbanding its police department. The community does have a seven-day-a-week law enforcement presence, but it’s temporary–through the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. Deputies cover the Randolph police district from 8 a.m. until midnight on weekdays, and...

The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency plans to shutter six temporary trailer sites across the Merrimack Valley, a move that could force more than two dozen families to move into hotels or apartments. The six trailers sites in Lawrence, Andover and North Andover, which opened shortly after the Sept. 13 gas explosions, will close over the next several weeks, according to...