New England

Kim Know Beckius, Travel Editor at Yankee Magazine, shares some of the best activities for families.

New England may not have its own style of barbecue like North Carolina, Kansas City, Memphis and Texas, but it’s still got some standout barbecue joints. Everyone who loves BBQ has a go-to restaurant, and Food Network has its own. It’s released its list of the best in each state, and the choices range from a big city spot...

The retailer mentioned decisions by two organizations, Marine Stewardship Council and Seafood Watch, to take away their endorsements of the U.S. lobster fishing industry over whale entanglement concerns.

Ranking the best bars in New England is always difficult — there are so many to choose from — but Yelp has a new list of the best one in each state. The list, using data through Oct. 17, ranks businesses identified as dive bars “using a number of factors including the total volume and ratings of reviews,” according to…

This summer and last have each brought talk of legendary megalodon sharks apparently spotted in the ocean off New England. So are megalodons really back?

A team of shark experts were shocked to see an image that appeared to be a 50-foot-long Megalodon on a sonar while on a research trip off New England’s coast.

Fifty-five-year-old Fotios “Freddy” Geas, 48-year-old Paul “Pauly” DeCologero, and 36-year-old Sean McKinnon were charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the beating death of Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger in a West Virginia prison in 2018

Two new highly-contagious omicron subvariants now account over half of all COVID-19 cases in New England, according to an update from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tuesday. The BA.5 variant is now responsible for 41.6% of the region’s cases, followed by BA.2.12.1 at 38.1%, BA.4 at 17.8% and BA.2 at 2.5%. Until last month, BA.4 and BA.5...

While most of the United States has been seeing falling birth rates in the last few years, New England has had a mini-baby boom, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts. All six states in New England had rising birth rates between 2019 and 2021, which is just under half of all the 13 U.S. states that did so, according to…

For those with a sweet tooth, doughnuts are often hard to resist, and with National Doughnut Day coming up, here are some of the top-rated spots in New England to get one. In its list of the Top 100 US Doughnut Shops of 2022, Yelp ranked New England twice, and residents of Connecticut and Massachusetts are in luck. At No….

Several people have reported rare sightings of North Atlantic Right Whales this month along the New England coastline from Provincetown to Portsmouth. “It is pretty rare to see them that close to shore,” Heather Pettis of the New England Aquarium said. With its bristle-like baleen plates and distinctive callosities decorating its head to its massive size and characteristic tail flukes,…

When Anne Fiyalka was in high school, she had the chance to fly with Amelia Earhart. On Saturday, through the AARP’s “Wish of a Lifetime,” she was able to take flight again for a special trip to the New England Air Museum.

Football fans have finally found something Tom Brady is not good at — retirement. Less than two months after he retired from the National Football League, Brady announced Sunday that he is returning for his 23rd season to take care of some “unfinished business” with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Brady led the Buccaneers to a Super Bowl title following the 2020…

Most New England counties are at a medium to low risk level for COVID-19 transmission, new CDC data shows, but there are some high risk communities as well. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new map that shows the risk level of COVID-19 by county in every state, with less of a focus on positive...

The New England Patriots will face the AFC East champions, the Buffalo Bills, in single-digit temperatures during Saturday’s Wild Card game. NBC10 Boston Meteorologist Matt Noyes said the temperature will be around five degrees at game time with a wind chill making it feel more like five below zero throughout the course of the game. Flurries are highly unlikely,...

The New England Patriots will face the Buffalo Bills for the third time this season in the AFC Wild Card game on Saturday. After the Las Vegas Raiders beat the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday night, the Patriots are scheduled to play the Bills Saturday at 8:15 p.m. in Buffalo in the first round of the NFL playoffs. They split…

The omicron variant of COVID-19 continues to spread in New England, but it still is not dominant, according to the latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — which also revised down the agency estimate of omicron’s prevalence the week before.

The omicron variant of COVID-19 is well on its way to becoming the dominant strain in New England, but it isn’t yet, despite becoming far more common in just a week.

Electric grid operators expect to be able to keep the lights on in New England this winter. But having come close to a major problem during a costly cold snap here four years ago and watching the recent struggles of power systems in California and Texas, ISO-New England is also doing more to highlight the risks the region’s power...

The New England Patriots have taken the top seed in the AFC East ahead of Monday night’s showdown against the Buffalo Bills. The Patriots took over as the top seed after the Baltimore Ravens lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday. The Ravens and Patriots have the same records — 8 and 4 — but New England has the tiebreaker due…