The Massachusetts State Police are warning residents about the dangers of venturing onto ice-covered ponds and lakes this winter.

Quote of the day by Henry David Thoreau captures this dual commitment. It suggests that personal insight and societal reform are intertwined, each dependent on the willingness to understand others.

A six-foot-long steel saw, its blades as large as sharks’ teeth, slides into frozen water. Iron tongs gape two feet wide before they seize an ice cake that glistens like a giant fish. While these ...

A person was flown by medical helicopter to a Boston hospital following a “water incident” at Walden Pond in Concord Sunday afternoon, according to Massachusetts State Police. Troopers responded to ...

41 Massachusetts beaches are currently closed due to unsafe bacteria levels as of Thursday, July 31. Most closures are due to bacterial exceedance, where bacteria levels surpass limits set by the ...

With a hot weekend ahead in Massachusetts, you may be in the mood to spend a day cooling off at the beach. However, if you're planning a weekend beach trip, you'll want to avoid the beaches closed due ...

Celebrating the Fourth of July early with a trip to the beach this week? If you're planning on visiting a beach in Massachusetts, you'll want to avoid the beaches closed due to unsafe swimming water.

A popular Massachusetts beach will remain closed for the entirety of the summer as a new multi-million dollar bathhouse is constructed. The main beach at the Walden Pond State Reservation in Concord ...

Save Our Heritage Executive Director Anna West Winter delivers remarks in the Massachusetts Senate reading room on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, opposing a private jet expansion project at Hanscom Field.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were any body else whom I knew as well. Thoreau’s legacy is two-pronged. First, he is remembered as a political prophet, advocating nonviolent ...

A half-an-hour drive from Boston, Massachusetts, in the town of Concord, sits one of the most revered literary landscapes in the world: the 2,680-acre Walden Woods and Walden Pond State Reservation.