Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cyanobacteria bloom in the Charles River in Boston has prompted the Massachusetts Department of Conservation to warn people not ...

Some Bostonians have been walking out onto the Charles River while its surface is frozen. The surge of cold weather recently has frozen the iconic river over; however, that doesn't mean that it's safe ...

After a storm in Boston, a decades-old sewage system discharges untreated wastewater into the Charles River, making it unsafe for swimmers and boaters for 48 hours. For the four days following the ...

A new proposal by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to reclassify the water quality of the Charles River — which would allow for the continued spillage of sewage into the waterway — has ...

The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority may have been caught loving that dirty water a little too much, as its board has halted a proposal that clean water advocates fear would dump sewage into ...

Here's something you don't often see in the Charles River: an alligator. But over the past few days, walkers along the Esplanade might've done a double-take, wondering for a moment if they'd somehow ...