children

The holiday shopping season is already upon us, bringing with it sales, countless trips to the mall and a local consumer watchdog group's top picks for the worst toys in 2015.

I am a 23-year-old college graduate living at home with my parents, four siblings, two dogs, and a bird. Why? Because I cannot fully support myself financially, so I am staying at home until I can afford a place of my own. The thing is, I'm not alone...

City officials and leaders from a local non-profit organization have teamed up to place a state-of-the-art fully handicap accessible playground on Pope's Island.

Local parents beware. A new report says there is an increasing number of children who are getting drunk by ingesting hand sanitizer. New analysis by the Georgia Poison Center shows that since 2010, poison control hotlines across the U...

City councilors are not impressed with the School Department's new busing system.

New Bedford was one of many communities nationwide to hold a National Night Out Tuesday evening.

Everybody wants their kid to be as smart as possible, but what if there was a way to boost your kid's intelligence right from birth? Researchers from the University of Sweden looked at a group of 263 children. Among those kids, 141 had been given about three minutes before their umbilical cord was cut or clamped after they were born...

(The first 16 seconds of the video pertain to the recall) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration reported on Wednesday that the Sabra Dipping Co. is recalling 30,000 cases of hummus due to possible contamination with Listeria. A routine, random sample at a store in Michigan in late March...

As Taylor posted, Gifts to Give is offering a special free presentation Thursday night, April 2, dealing with children and social media. The community conversation is scheduled for 6 pm at the Gifts to Give location in Acushnet, and will feature guest speakers discussing the dangers of social media if used incorrectly...

It's snowing out and schools and day care centers across the South Coast are closed yet again, which means the kiddos are home and are probably three seconds from driving you completely bonkers (if they haven't successfully done so already).