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Overview
The Boston Globe is Massachusetts' largest newspaper and the main paper for the State House and the Suffolk County courts, and the Boston Herald is the city's tabloid. The Worcester Telegram & Gazette, the Springfield Republican published online as MassLive, the Cape Cod Times, the Standard-Times in New Bedford, the Berkshire Eagle, the Lowell Sun, the Eagle-Tribune in North Andover, the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, the MetroWest Daily News and the Salem News cover their regions, and CommonWealth Beacon covers state policy online.
Massachusetts newspapers carry the legal notices state law requires for foreclosures, probate and municipal actions, publish obituaries for 14 counties, and hold court coverage that pairs with the Trial Court's electronic case access.
Official sources on this page were checked on September 25, 2026.
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Massachusetts Newspapers
Find local and statewide newspaper publications for Massachusetts. Access news, sports, classified, entertainment, and archived articles.
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Major Massachusetts newspapers and what they cover
The Globe covers Boston, state government, the Supreme Judicial Court and the federal court, with back issues from the 1870s onward in the digital archives. The Herald covers the same city with a focus on courts, police and politics. The Telegram & Gazette covers Worcester County, MassLive covers Springfield and the Pioneer Valley, and the Cape Cod Times covers Barnstable County. Town weeklies across the state carry select board minutes, police logs, zoning hearings and the probate and family court notices that Massachusetts requires.
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Historic Massachusetts newspapers online
Digital Commonwealth, the Massachusetts digital library, offers free digitized newspapers from libraries across the state, and Massachusetts titles from the colonial era onward appear in Chronicling America through the Boston Public Library. The Boston Public Library holds the largest newspaper microfilm collection in New England and provides free access to the Globe and Herald archives with a library card. The American Antiquarian Society in Worcester holds the deepest collection of early American newspapers in the country.
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Legal notices, public notices and obituaries in Massachusetts
Massachusetts law requires mortgagee's sale notices, probate and family court citations, name changes, tax takings and municipal hearings and warrants to be published in a newspaper with general circulation in the town or county, and the Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association collects them in a statewide search. Nearly every Massachusetts daily and most of the weeklies carry obituaries, and the Boston Public Library keeps an obituary index for the Globe. Court coverage pairs with the Trial Court's electronic case access system for the superior and district courts.
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Straight answers
Massachusetts Newspaper Directory, questions
What are the main newspapers in Massachusetts?
The Boston Globe and the Boston Herald in Boston, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, MassLive and the Springfield Republican, the Cape Cod Times and a network of regional dailies and town weeklies.
Where are historic Massachusetts newspapers online?
Digital Commonwealth offers free digitized titles from libraries statewide, Chronicling America adds colonial and 19th century papers, and the Boston Public Library holds the largest microfilm collection in New England.
Where are Massachusetts foreclosure notices published?
Mortgagee's sale notices run in a newspaper with general circulation in the town, collected in the Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association's statewide public notice search.