A large brush fire in an Essex County swamp took firefighters from surrounding towns hours to extinguish on Wednesday.

Funds raised during the New Year's Day plunge will go toward student scholarships for the Swampscott eighth-graders' trip to Washington D.C.

In 1962, when environmentalist and author Rachel Carson penned "Silent Spring," alerting the world to the dangers of the pesticide DDT, it was the reproductive threat to birds—the bald eagle in ...

Danvers High senior Josh Henry is in the same grade as Vietnam veteran Dick Moody’s grandson at school. That was about all ...

As a toddler, my parents were concerned I didn’t know my name because anytime they talked to me, I never responded. At the ...

Educators and others fear that speed reading by listening to audiobooks at faster-than-normal speeds may lead to ...