While Lawrence, Methuen, Haverhill, and Lowell voters are all going to the polls on November 4th to choose local leaders, ...

Methuen School Committee member Kristen Maxwell says she called the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office Friday to notify ...

Lawrence’s James George Hajjar, was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in the Plains neighborhood in Lawrence, a community of Lebanese, Sicilian, and Irish, a few blocks northwest of Campagnone ...

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Every day, thousands of Massachusetts residents try to access public services online. But what happens when those websites are broken, inaccessible, or simply don’t work for people with disabilities?

EDITORS NOTE: The new campaign finance laws dictate that cities like Lawrence with a population of more than 65,000 people must file their campaign finance reports monthly on the year of an election.

Valley Patriot investigation shows Lawrence Homeless Coordinator tried to steer federal funds to her own non-profit, funds administered through her department. Kelly Birchall Frazier, Homeless ...

Last week I made a Facebook post about the woke political agenda of Methuen School Committee member Laurie Keagan. Among the many things I exposed about Keagan was her woke agenda for the kids of ...

The City of Methuen is seeing a significant surge of state-level recognition and funding, positioning the community as a growing leader in housing development, workforce education, and ...

BOSTON: Among the bills sponsored this session by State Auditor Diana DiZoglio is legislation to reform the Commonwealth’s payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) program for state-owned land (SOL). PILOT ...

Methuen Superintendent of Schools Brandi Kwong’s resigned last week and anyone who reads this newspaper saw it coming a mile away. All the warning signs were there despite the majority of the School ...