Lowell News

An information night and orientation for Lowell Public Schools' full-day kindergarten program will be held Tuesday, Feb.

Boston Herald Features Reporter Tenley Woodman is a feature writer for the Boston Herald.

I had intended to start today's chat with a very positive review of the recent state-of-the-city package City Manager Bernie Lynch had submitted to the City Council a few weeks ago.

Legislative leaders may have been modest when they claimed Massachusetts cities and towns would save $100 million under new health-insurance-bargaining rules.

Under mounting pressure to help solve problems involving bars in and near downtown, the city's License Commission is recommending the city roll back bar closing time from 2 a.m. to midnight.

The city of Springfield made a move this week aimed at curbing the same type of late-night, alcohol-fueled downtown disorder that has been plaguing Lowell.

U.S. Sen. John Kerry applauded the announcement by President Barack Obama yesterday that Massachusetts and nine other states get to leave behind the No Child Left Behind law.

Backstage at Lowell High School's Cyrus Irish Auditorium, hairstylists and makeup artists put the finishing touches on frenzied models waiting to strut their stuff at the inaugural Looks of Lowell WinterFest Fashion Show.

The Lowell Housing Authority has been working to bring 132 units at its North Common Village into compliance with state law, but the agency's efforts are not stopping it from moving forward with other work at the complex.

Think Charles Dickens in goggles, sprouting ancillary wings and flying over Lowell.

From the late 1960s through to the early 80s, a creative energy gripped the city where Jack Kerouac found his muse.

Maria Zamboni tried not to get her hopes up as she sped north from Boston to a Lowell police precinct Wednesday morning.

A 29-year-old Lowell man cleared in a 2002 slaying has been ordered held on $50,000 cash bail in connection with 25 charges of trafficking in firearms and Oxycodone.

The Super Bowl didn't just end badly for the New England Patriots, a Lowell man is facing his third drunken-driving charge after he left a Super Bowl party and got into a minor fender bender that landed him in handcuffs.

Police say a young man emerged from a van near the Hannaford Supermarket in Dracut on Thursday afternoon and fired at least five gunshots at a man nearby, though all the shots missed their intended victim.

From soul-piercing vocals to sounds that stay humming in your head, the nominees for the New England Music Awards are in and the list of local talent is long.

A spokeswoman for District Attorney Gerard Leone said a Chelmsford man, 38, was one of three men stabbed in a fight that killed Timothy Lewis, 34, of Chelmsford, on Tuesday morning in Lowell.

Concert of Works for Chorus & Orchestra -- Littleton High School Performing Arts Center, 56 King St., Littleton, Sun., Feb.

Winterfest is more than soup, dogsleds and downtown sleigh rides. The city's boutiques, galleries and museums get into the act this weekend, too, with events and exhibits to turn visitors on to the arts scene here.

A decision to permit the Community of Khmer Buddhist Monks to locate a trailer on the site off Townsend Avenue where they plan to eventually build a temple has been postponed two weeks while the Conservation Commission reviews updated plans and receives official stamped plans from the applicant.