Worcester News

A young man walks through flood waters on Austin Street at Bellevue in Worcester this afternoon.

Republican Charlie Baker is not only leading every other candidate in the fundraising race for governor, but his financial support is also deeper across a wider swath of Massachusetts than any of his rivals.

The story of this school, like so many in the industrial towns outside Worcester, is directly tied to the industrial history of the towns.

Motorists should expect delays this week on the following city streets because of resurfacing or sewer-related construction: Canterbury Street - Hammond St. to Gardner St. Commercial Street - Front St. to Foster St. Cutler Street - Grafton St. to Aetna St. Davis Street - Piedmont St. to Queen St. Derby Street - 63 to Everton Ave. Elm Street - ... (more)

There would be no official parade, but the mood of the group of Liberians gathered in front of City Hall Saturday morning remained upbeat.

New Hampshire residents with swimming pools are being asked to check their filters for an invasive insect that poses a serious threat to the state's forests and trees.

A city man has been indicted on a charge of murder in the slaying of a Worcester woman whose body was discovered in the Auburn Mall parking garage in February.

The Worcester Animal Rescue League had its annual Bow Wow Luau on Saturday, where dog owners and friends of the organization donated dog food, toys, treats and other items.

Made famous as the training ground for 1899 world champion Major Taylor, George Street surely tests a cyclist's climbing strength.

Edward Dinyeah of Worcester stands among a group of more than 125 Liberians who gathered this morning under the Liberian flag at City Hall before going to the soccer fields at Worcester Academy on Providence Street for a daylong celebration on the anniversary of the west African nation's independence 167 years ago.

Even as violent crime has receded across New York City, arrests are near historic highs, driven by an increasingly controversial imperative that no offense is too minor for police officers to pursue.

Residents eager for information on the proposed gas pipeline, that would run through town, turned out to get details from representatives of the company proposing the new line.

A customer walks by the empty produce isle Thursday July 24, 2014 at a Market Basket supermarket in Concord, N.H. A decades-long family feud, which brought about the ouster of Arthur T. Demoulas as CEO of the privately held company, led to a worker revolt, customer boycotts and empty shelves in the grocery chain's stores in Maine, Massachusetts and ... (more)

The 2014 Westboro Good Scout Award will be presented to Peter Gardner on Nov. 10 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Westboro.

A Fire Department ladder truck was needed to remove victims of an accident that occurred about 10:30 this morning after a car rolled onto its roof on Interstate 190 above West Boylston Street, near Greendale Mall.

Police are looking for three men involved in a stabbing at a Delldale Street apartment Wednesday night.

Gravestones remain knocked over Thursday at the Worcester Hebrew Cemetery in Auburn after vandalism last weekend.

Two men have been arrested and charged with biking up to a woman and robbing her at gunpoint Monday morning downtown, police said.

The last time Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden played Worcester, both bands were at full nuclear-strike capability.

While city officials have declined to discuss the reason for Christopher J. Korenowsky's sudden resignation after just five months as head librarian of the Worcester Public Library, police records show officers were sent to his downtown apartment twice since early June to check on his well-being.