Lowell News

A dispute over recycling among residents at the Renaissance on the River condominiums could force Lowell apartment buildings to build enclosures around recycling collection bins.

Two gunmen robbed a barbershop at 347 Bridge St. in the Centralville neighborhood about 10:40 a.m. Wednesday, police said.

Bridge Street was shut down in the Greenmont Avenue area Thursday morning as Verizon replaced a utility pole broken when a sport utility vehicle crashed into it about 4:30 a.m. The roadway is expected to be ...

The intersection of VFW Highway and Bridge Street in Lowell has earned the dubious distinction of being the most accident-plagued crossroads in the state, according to a study released recently by the state.

Former Lowell Superintendent of Schools Karla Brooks Baehr has been tapped to fill a newly created deputy-commissioner position at the state's Department of Education.

A group of four masked men armed with a handgun and baseball bats barged into a Belvidere neighborhood home and attacked one person inside around dawn Wednesday, police said.

A 35-year-old Pelham man was flown to a Boston hospital last night after he was cut during a fight in which police say both he and his brother wielded glass bottles as weapons.

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Chappy's Auto Repair, a 56-year-old family-run garage in Centralville, will itself be under repair, but still open this morning after an out-of-control driver destroyed a corner of the garage yesterday ...

A 40-year-old Lowell man must repay more than $100,000 after he admitted he bilked the government by accepting eight years worth of Social Security disability checks while he was employed as a nurse and even ...

It was a sunny day at the Riverwalk in Lowell. A beaver swam in the river near a sandbar, and a mother duck paddled onto shore nearby as her three ducklings checked out something strange.

Tears fell and parents hugged their children as a Brentwood couple dedicated a bench in memory of their young daughter and son who died six months ago on a Massachusetts highway.

A 27-year-old Wilmington man who told police they couldn't arrest him because he is a government employee was held over the weekend on charges that he kicked in a pair of doors in an Aiken Street apartment ...

Lowell's offense was overpowering as Post 87 came away with the 16-4 win in a clash of one-loss teams in Zone 5 at Stoklosa Alumni Field.

Sharon Shelton of Lowell described a dinosaur statue with a sign that reads "Locavore." The "Locavore" will be featured at the 28th Lowell Farmers' Market starting tomorrow at JFK Plaza.

City police say they slapped handcuffs on a 42-year-old fugutive Saturday after officers saw him speeding, and then learned he was wanted for robbery by authorities in Puerto Rico, and possibly even for ...

Matthew Belanger was late. His cousin, Sophia Perrin, was early. That scenario will set up a lifetime of jokes for the two cousins as they grow up together.

Thanks to Jack Kerouac, Robert Frost and other notable scribes from the Merrimack Valley, Lowell has been picked to host the first poetry festival in the state.

Five months before his June 26 suicide, former Lowell priest James P. Robichaud was told by the Diocese of Portland, Maine, about a single allegation of sexual abuse against him.