By Tuesday night — following the fourth hottest day on record in Boston — Mass General’s emergency department was slammed.

The heat wave caused disruptions to public transport across the Northeast. Amtrak said it will be forced to slow train speeds ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Extensive triple digit heat, broken temperature records and oppressive humidity piled up into a steaming mess ...

This is no ordinary heat. All time records are within reach today, as this early season heat wave becomes official.

A van with 16 “elderly” passengers slammed into a building in Dorchester Wednesday afternoon, as several people were ...

A hospital visitor and a staffer both confirmed that the hospital air conditioning is not working properly. They say that on ...

Another warm day will arrive Wednesday with mostly sunshine for the day, and some isolated thunderstorms are possible by ...

The four-day heat wave in Boston was confirmed Wednesday, with temperatures returning to the mid-90s, falling short of setting another new daily high record, which is 97, set in 1943.

Boston's current heat wave brings a high of 92 degrees with isolated storms, and a cool down expected by the weekend.

A record-breaking heat wave continues to scorch the East Coast, with City hitting 100 degrees for the first time in over a ...

Even as the heat dome begins to wane, portions of 20 states from the Ohio Valley to the Deep South and the Carolinas to southern New England remain under heat alerts on Wednesday. Temperatures in the ...

Extreme heat — and what to do about it — was also on the minds of researchers, community advocates and local leaders at a ...