Two of the Merrimack Valley’s best-ever basketball talents, Methuen’s Georges Niang and Lowell’s Terance Mann, were both part of separate trades to the Atlanta Hawks at Thursday’s NBA trade deadline.

The Merrimack Valley Transit authority has voted to make its fare-free policy permanent. The MeVa advisory board approved the policy Thursday after reviewing a report highlighting the economic, ...

National Grid's decision raises questions about the viability of a key strategy many environmentalists had hoped could ...