The iconic Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will be cut down on Thursday morning.
This year’s Norway Spruce is in West Stockbridge in western Massachusetts.
It’s the first time in nearly 70 years that a Massachusetts tree has b…
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Police investigating late-night stabbing in downtown Boston
Police say they are investigating a stabbing in downtown Boston on Wednesday night.
Police said a male subject was stabbed in the area of Cambridge and Sudbury streets in downtown Boston late Wednesday night. The victim was taken to an area hospital but is expected to survive.
No arrests have been announced by police.
No further details were released.
Dozens of people displaced after Peabody apartment building fire
A fire tore through an apartment building in Peabody, Massachusetts, overnight. And now dozens of people are without a home.
The large apartment building on Main Street sustained extensive damage in the fire – the back of the building is completely charred, while the front looks almost untouched.
Firefighters said they got the call around midnight, but it was likely burning for quite some time before that.
The building contains six units, but Peabody Fire Chief Jay Dowling said all 40 people inside were able to get out on their own before crews arrived.
No firefighters or residents were injured.
Dowling said his firefighters encountered fire in the walls and through the roof of the building when they tried an interior attack.
“At one point, about 30 minutes into the incident, we attempted to go back into the building and some of the floors had already collapsed, the ceilings collapsed, so we’re on a defensive effort now for the rest of the duration,” he said.
The American Red Cross is on scene assisting those who were displaced by the fire.
The cause and origin of the blaze remain under investigation.
Massachusetts Question 5 aftermath: Minimum wage fight for servers not going away
One Fair Wage has vowed to continue seeking the minimum wage for tipped employees through “legislative action and/or future ballot measures” after Bay State voters overwhelmingly denied Question 5 on Election Day.
New Trump image projected onto Hanson water tower washed out with bright lights
Bright lights are drowning out a new Donald Trump image projected onto a water tower in Hanson, Massachusetts.
The town previously brought in lights to cover up a resident’s projection of a “Trump 2024” sign, saying last mont…
MCAS graduation requirement ends: How ballot questions shape policy
Voters in Massachusetts weighed in on ballot questions that are expected to shape policy for years to come.
Questions 1, 2 and 3 were approved. Respectively, the measures allow the state auditor’s office to audit the Legislature, end the MCAS as a high school graduation requirement and let rideshare drivers unionize.
Question 4, which would have legalized some psychedelics, and Question 5, which would have raised the minimum wage for tipped workers, did not pass.
According to Evan Horowitz with the Center for State Policy Analysis at Tufts University, both measures are technically done deals, but that doesn’t mean legislators won’t make changes.
“They take effect, they enter the general laws, they become law. But every law is like that. When a law passes, it has no binding effect on future lawmakers,” Horowitz said.
Horowitz told NBC10 Boston that most likely, the measures will be certified within the next 30 days by the state, but lawmakers could then amend the laws or create new laws.
“I think the most likely path, if they do decide to make a change [to Question 2], will be to say, ‘You know what a lot of states do?’ They don’t have a final test for students to pass, but they do say, ‘You’ve got to take three years of math, and these three classes, you’ve got to take three years of English, you’ve got to take two years of foreign language,’” Horowitz said.
The Massachusetts Teachers Association said on social media that Question 2’s approval “welcomed a new era in our public schools.”
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