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Maine voters approve three questions on ballot in 2021, which ban the construction of Hydro Québec's high-voltage line to Massachusetts that passes through the state, authorize issuing $100 million in infrastructure bonds and amend the Constitution of Maine to declare a right to produce and consume food of their choice for personal usage.
2021-11-2

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker announces that the state will tighten restrictions and move back to phase 3 of the reopening plan.
2020-12-8

Massachusetts reports a record 4,613 new cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 234,232.
2020-12-2

Protests begin in New York and Massachusetts in the United States, Paris in France, Toronto in Canada, Madrid, Navarre, and Barcelona in Spain, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and London in England.
2020-02-23

Ten people are injured when a taxi jumps a curb and hit a group of cabdrivers outside the taxi pool building at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts.
2017-07-3

A jury acquits the former head of the now-closed Massachusetts pharmacy, New England Compounding Center, Barry Cadden, on 25 counts of second-degree murder but convicts him of racketeering and other crimes in a meningitis outbreak that was traced to fungus-contaminated drugs and killed 64 people across the country. Cadden disregarded sanitary conditions to boost production and make more money.
2017-03-22

Two Massachusetts high schools close due to bomb threats; it is the third bomb threat Brockton High School has received this school year.
2015-04-13

Former governor of Massachusetts and US ambassador Paul Cellucci dies at age 65.
2013-06-8

U.S. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts claims the government of Sudan{{spaced ndash}}which has been subject to U.S. sanctions since 1997{{spaced ndash}}has assured him it will hold a referendum on independence for the south.
2010-10-25

French-American mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot dies of cancer in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2010-10-14