WASHINGTON, D.C. - The chairman of the New England Fishery Management Council is appealing to the U.S. Senate to allow for more flexibility under the Magnuson-Stevens Act.
The act serves as the governing standard for fisheries across the country...
WORCESTER, MA — University of Massachusetts undergraduates will pay an average of $416 more for in-state tuition in the fall.
The five-campus system's trustees Monday approved a roughly 3 percent increase that will bump the average in-state undergraduate tuition at the Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth and Lowell campuses to $14,253 for the 2017-18 academic year...
BOSTON — Tuition and fees for University of Massachusetts students will likely increase 2 to 3 percent for the coming academic year, depending on how the state budget shapes up, UMass President Marty Meehan said at at Board of Trustees meeting on Wednesday...
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) _ A former University of Massachusetts graduate student convicted of involuntary manslaughter for providing the heroin that led to the overdose death of an undergraduate working as an informant for campus police has been sentenced to serve a year in jail...
One of the young women struck by a car Thursday night in Dartmouth has been released from the hospital.
The unidentified 19-year-old UMass Dartmouth student was released from St. Luke's Hospital after she and a 21-year-old fellow student were hit by a car after 6pm at the intersection of Old Westport and Cross Roads...
Campus police are investigating after gunshots were fired at UMass Dartmouth early Sunday morning.
Campus police say initial reports of the gunshots were made around 3am Sunday in the campus' Cedar Dell area. Campus police responded, finding no evidence of gunshots...
A South Dartmouth man has died following a horrific crash in Westport this week.
Westport Police say 27-year-old Taylor Green died Monday night at Rhode Island Hospital after losing control of his 2006 Nissan Altima on State Road early that morning...