LOWELL — The University Avenue bridge is getting the reputation as the suicide bridge.

Fire and rescue workers were lowered into the Merrimack River Saturday to retrieve a body located below the Richard P. Howe Bridge.

LOWELL — Inch by inch and survey by survey, the Rourke Bridge project site work is taking place. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation released an update on the nearly 1,300-foot-long bridge ...

LOWELL — Site preparation work for the new Rourke Bridge project and minor upgrades to the existing 40-year-old “temporary” bridge that spans the Merrimack River are already underway or scheduled to ...

EARLIER THIS month marked the start of construction on a four-lane permanent bridge to replace the current two-lane Rourke Bridge, almost 70 years after the project was first proposed. State Sen. Ed ...