Hurricane Harvey smacked Texas near Corpus Christi, but now Texans 200 miles inland are worried about Biblical floods as the storm taking over Texas dumps water for days. It was a little over two years ago when heavy storms ravaged flood-prone plains of Houston and Austin, drowning numerous people when water rushed into underground parking garages, apartments and shopping malls. Those floods were... 

The Rockland area is mourning the loss of the man who had hoped to make the city the heart of a new energy industry. Matthew Simmons, a longtime summer resident of Rockport, died Sunday night at a summer house on North Haven island. He was 67 years old. According to the Medical Examiner’s office, Simmons drowned. A statement earlier in the day from the Ocean Energy institute in Rockland,...