Hawaiʻi has had relatively few gun-related deaths, but they’ve risen sharply over the past 10 years. Hawaiʻi saw the steepest ...

Two mosquito samples taken from Boston last week tested positive for West Nile virus. See which neighborhoods they came from ...

Emergency departments are seeing a notable increase in patients with tick bites, and the state epidemiologist said a tick ...

Visits to the Emergency Room for tick bites this summer are spiking well above those of previous years, Centers for Disease ...

Drug overdose deaths in Massachusetts tied to opioids are at their lowest level in more than a decade, according the preliminary figures.

See how many tick bite-related emergency department visits the Northeast has seen this summer compared to last summer.

Opioid related overdose deaths fell 36% in Massachusetts in 2024, reaching their lowest point since 2013, according to ...

Emergency departments are seeing a notable increase in patients with tick bites, and the state epidemiologist said a tick species previously eradicated in the region is now ...

"Patients reporting tick exposure is higher this spring and early summer than at any point during the last three years," Dr. Catherine Brown, the state public health veterinarian, told the Public ...

Trash collectors continue to strike against Republic Services, disrupting collection for more than a dozen Massachusetts ...