DRACUT — The town is unlikely to join the list of communities to seek an exemption from the MBTA Communities Act anytime soon. While no one who spoke at the March 11 Board of Selectmen meeting ...

Everyone knows the MBTA can be loud ... by prioritizing other noise sources, for example by updating building codes to suppress sound that travels through walls and floors. That way, even if ...

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MIDDLETON — The Town of Middleton has taken legal action against the state regarding the controversial MBTA Communities Act after the state auditor’s ruling that the provisions constitute an ...

There are some very good reasons for wearing your AirPods or other noise-cancelling devices. Noise infiltrates your consciousness in every aspect of your life. You wake up to the sounds of your ...

Our newly published research introduces a way to create audible enclaves – localized pockets of sound that are isolated from their surroundings. In other words, we’ve developed a technology ...

A decade after a Revere man suffered a disabling traumatic brain injury when he was allegedly beaten by an MBTA bus driver, the state’s highest court ruled he can sue the agency for hiring a ...

BOSTON (WHDH) - Boston and MBTA police are investigating a stabbing Sunday at the JFK/UMass MBTA station. Police say a confrontation between two people on a train led to one person suffering a ...

What do you think it could be? The answer is noise - and its impact on the human body goes far beyond damaging hearing. "It is a public health crisis, we've got huge numbers of people exposed in ...

Fed up with inaction, residents have taken matters into their hands–collaborating not with city leaders, but with airport tenants, to push for a noise-absorbing wall along Hayvenhurst Avenue.

The MBTA is hiring, as South Coast Rail prepares to come to New Bedford and Fall River. A job fair is scheduled for New Bedford on Friday. Another job fair is scheduled for April 1 in Fall River.