Every summer since the early 2000s, great white sharks have returned to the waters off the Outer Cape. They come for the grey seals, whose population has rebounded dramatically since the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 ended the commercial hunting that had kept...
If you’ve been injured on a public beach, a town road, a municipal parking lot, a public school, or any other property owned or maintained by a Massachusetts city or town, you may have a valid legal claim. But the rules for pursuing that claim are different from...
If your family has ever moved a loved one into a Massachusetts assisted living facility and been charged an upfront “community fee” at move-in, a March 2026 ruling from the Supreme Judicial Court says that fee may have been illegal, and that the facility...
Every Memorial Day weekend the population of Cape Cod multiplies overnight. Main Street in Hyannis, Commercial Street in Provincetown, the villages of Chatham, Falmouth, and Sandwich fill up with visitors who are on vacation, often distracted, and frequently...
Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of riding season in New England, and every year it arrives with a grim reminder: the stretch from May through August is when Massachusetts roads claim the most motorcycle lives. With the holiday three weeks away and...
