The state of Massachusetts held State House Innovation Day yesterday – and the drone industry was present and accounted for. The Massachusetts TechHUB Caucus hosted its 3rd marquee Inn... Read more
A federal court has grounded four parts of a 2016 drone ordinance in a Massachusetts town after a pitched legal battle that may set precedence in future UAV case law. Local drone operator Mi... Read more
An unknown pundit once quipped: “The Universe gave us Mondays to punish us for the things we did over the weekend.” Whether or not that’s true, DRONELIFE readers can at least look forward to... Read more
Law-enforcement UAV deployment is growing so fast. “How fast is it?” you may ask – so much so, that DRONELIFE needs a two-part roundup just to capture recent headlines (Part 1 lives here). R... Read more
Massachusetts State Police announced Saturday that they will launch a drone education program to teach recreational drone operators the rules of flight. The program was announced as a respon... Read more
The state Massachusetts Department of Transportation is considering the use of drones to assist with roadwork and construction, reports the Boston Herald. Using drones for inspections under... Read more
While some drones have played the villain in recent media reports covering firefighting efforts, a plan to deploy a fleet of autonomous drones may extinguish concerns and dampen UAV naysayer... Read more
While we are still at least a year from an official route to becoming a licensed commercial drone operator, private companies have begun to take it upon themselves to educate the curious mas... Read more
(Source: wbjournal.com) As Maribeth McCauley Lynch walked the property of one of her latest listings in Westborough, the Realtor looked up to see a hawk floating above the rolling four-acr... Read more
While the continued debate between the FAA and the UAV sector over how drones are to be regulated continues to grab headlines, a number of similar discussions are happening all over the U.S.... Read more
(Source: popularmechanics.com) For the drone revolution to really take off, the flying machines will have to fly longer than the half-hour-or-so that today’s batteries allow. Startup... Read more
(Source: bostonglobe.com) Drone pilots, start your engines. In just a few months, researchers could be sending unmanned aircraft into the air from Joint Base Cape Cod to test an array of e... Read more
(Source: wcvb.com) For the first time, the Plymouth Fire Department had access to ultra-high-definition video of damage just hours after the blizzard slammed the coast. The images from two... Read more
It’s not easy being a whale these days. From illegal whale hunters to over-exuberant tourist-watchers to human-made ocean noises, our largest sea mammals are under a lot of stress and, unlik... Read more