A fire at a home in Whitman, Massachusetts started in a pet snake enclosure, fire investigators said. It happened around ...

Some of the strongest pushback against state literacy requirements has come from Massachusetts’ wealthiest communities.

The state’s deadliest blaze in more than four decades has highlighted the lack of regulations governing assisted-living ...

While fighting the fire, two firefighters were transported to the hospital with injuries not believed to be life-threatening, ...

A short-staffed Fall River Fire Department struggled in the Gabriel House fire. But most Mass. fire departments are not staffed to proper standards.

A house fire in Lackawanna claimed the lives of a woman and a child, while two other children remain hospitalized.

The facility's certification was suspended after the state concluded it wasn't treating residents with "consideration, respect, personal dignity and privacy." ...

Members of a commission working on new regulations that would change the way assisted living facilities are run will delay ...

Fire engines or ladder trucks should be staffed with four members. In Massachusetts, the average is about two firefighters.