Recently Qantas announced plans to conduct test flights from New York and London to Sydney and two other Australian cities.

The world is on the brink of a recession, if all the breathless headlines are to be believed.

If Donald Trump were to tweet that nine is a prime number, that Minneapolis is in Idaho, and that the sun revolves around the Earth — “Make Earth Great Again!” — would even five Republican senators publicly disagree with even one of the tweets?

Police Chief Patrick Keefe and Health Director Thomas Carbone presented an overview on human trafficking to the Select Board Tuesday night, in an effort from the board to be more proactive and create public awareness in town. Would you like to see presentations like this on other critical is…

What is the point of a primary campaign against President Donald Trump?

Have you ever refused an apology?

The open carry of firearms is primarily performance. Whether the performer’s goal is to dramatize extreme gun rights, intimidate others, trigger the libs or cast oneself as the avenging hero in a miniseries of the mind, the practice is not just an assault on public safety. It’s a theater of …

Editor, Townsman:

This year’s Andover Day celebration will partly focus on the opioid epidemic, as the Andover Cares group takes over the parking lot at Andover Village Square during the event. Between 2014 and 2016, more than 20 Andover people died because of substance use. At the festival, Andover Cares wil…

Andover recently raised the town’s risk for Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) from “moderate” to “high” after more mosquitoes were found that tested positive for the virus, as well as a dead horse in Methuen. Andover is continuing to conduct mosquito spraying in areas where the insects with …

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo was caught in a video screaming expletives when someone made the mistake of calling him “Fredo,” referring to the fictional character Fredo Corleone from “The Godfather” films.

In the past couple of months, the flaws in the Federal Reserve’s management of the economy have become hard to ignore. The central bank’s current way of doing things is increasingly self-defeating.

The Washington, D.C., area is already rich and overcrowded, and with the arrival of Amazon.com Inc.’s second headquarters it’s about to get thousands more high-paying jobs. Lots of other metropolitan areas, especially in the middle of the country, are less rich and less crowded.

National Grid is doing cable replacement work next month in certain neighborhoods. The work will provide new cable service to residents and end the unexpected power outages that have gone on for years. Residents at the Select Board meeting Monday night expressed frustrations over the outage…

The recent ruling by U.S. District Judge John Koeltl to dismiss the Democratic National Committee’s lawsuit against Russia, the Trump campaign and others may look like something of an afterthought now that Robert Mueller, the special counsel, has failed to find evidence of a criminal conspir…

Like many of our most depressing political debates these days, it began on Twitter. Yet the instigator this time was not President Donald Trump.

This week’s question:

The Select Board recently approved Town Manager Andrew Flanagan’s long-range financial goals, and voted that his development of the Fiscal Year 2021 budget will not exceed a 3.65% rate of increase in the average tax bill. In the Fiscal Year 2020 budget, the average tax bill saw a 3.8% increa…