BOSTON — Rising seas and damaging storms fueled by climate change threaten coastal communities, and lawmakers are seeking protections to harden the shoreline.

NEWBURYPORT — A New Hampshire man is to be arraigned Sept. 30 in Newburyport District Court after local police say he stole almost $3,500 worth of cosmetics from two stores within an hour.

While federal and state officials eagerly pursue a rapid and significant deployment of offshore wind turbines to generate cleaner power along the East Coast, scientists and advocates on Wednesday unveiled a new mapping tool designed to give developers, regulators and the public a better sens…

BOSTON — Lawmakers heard pitches on Tuesday to carve out a slice of federal relief money to expand mental health and substance abuse programs, support regional food pantries and health boards, and cover other post-pandemic needs.

I often mention the importance and benefits of combining education with enforcement to make cities safer.

Peanuts, get your peanuts! On this day in 1916, The Daily News reported that Andrew Mazonni, a well-known peanut seller at the foot of State Street, would once again be at his place of business. He had been recently confined to his home due to illness.

NEWBURYPORT — The Custom House Maritime Museum is celebrating the Essex National Heritage Area’s Trails and Sails on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with a Revolutionary War militia muster.

WEST NEWBURY — The community is invited to attend a brainstorming session to decide what’s next for the historic Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall on Main Street.

BOSTON — School districts would be banned from “lunch shaming” students whose parents don’t put enough money in their online meal accounts under a proposal up for a vote in the state Senate on Thursday.

NEWBURYPORT — One of the city’s few registered Level 3 sex offenders is back behind bars after pleading guilty to domestic violence-related charges on Wednesday in Newburyport District Court.

LEICESTER (AP) — Voters have overwhelmingly approved the town’s purchase of the campus of now-closed Becker College.

NEWBURYPORT — Tickets are still available for the Newburyport Art Association’s 20th annual Art Auction & Party on Saturday.

NEWBURYPORT — A local man who police say was fondling himself while watching women unload groceries in the Market Basket plaza in February suffered a legal setback Tuesday when a judge denied his motion to toss alleged statements he made to police shortly before his arrest.

NEWBURY — A Byfield man out on bail after being charged with rape in October was arrested Sunday night by police at his home after allegedly violating a condition of his release.

NEWBURYPORT — Firehouse Center for the Arts begins its 2021-22 theatrical season in November.

Wanted on this day in 1883 were the people who took a ladder from the corner of State and Middle streets three weeks earlier. They could return it to 82 Market Square or have it sent to the city marshal. Per the newspaper, the culprits are well-known, but if returned “mum is the word.”

LOWELL — A number of Greater Newburyport residents were among the 4,582 graduates honored at UMass-Lowell.

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NEWBURY — Plans for a new residential development at 105 High Road passed a key milestone when the Planning Board voted unanimously last week to close a public hearing it opened more than a year ago.

The MBTA will take steps to fire the Green Line operator who investigators say accelerated a trolley to three times the speed limit before crashing into another train from behind, officials announced Tuesday.

SALISBURY — The McCormack Strong team will be walking in the Greater Boston Walk to End Alzheimer’s on Sept. 26.

Home prices in the red-hot housing market exceeded $500,000 for the fifth straight month in August, but buyers aren’t scooping up the properties as fast as they did during the previous two years as single-family home sales declined for the second straight month, The Warren Group reported on …

SALISBURY — Crowds turned out under sunny skies to enjoy almost two dozen Salisbury Day events over the weekend, from the music of a swing band to competition among antique fire pumpers.

NEWBURYPORT — There are seven candidates vying for three School Committee seats in the preliminary election today, Sept. 21. 

GEORGETOWN — Local police and school officials are investigating a racially charged “physical altercation” that broke out Friday near the end of a Georgetown High School football game against Roxbury Prep Charter School.

NEWBURYPORT — At least nine signs were stolen and more were reported damaged over the weekend at The Cottages at Port Place, a nearly complete development of 38 single-family homes at the site of the former Evergreen Valley Golf Course on Boyd Drive.

BOSTON — Parents worried about rising COVID-19 infections are raising concerns that schools aren’t offering remote learning options for unvaccinated students and those with weakened immune systems.