Newton’s Zoning and Planning Committee passed new rules for defining floodplains to comply with FEMA requirements in its meeting on Monday.

Zoning codes need to be changed in order for the city to properly establish its animal control facility for stray dogs, but a commercial property owner who owns land around the site and around the ...

Newton Mayor Evelyn George stressed that council was only deciding on the zoning codes and not the animal control project itself. The council has already purchased a modular dog kennel but the ...