A Suffolk Superior Court judge temporarily blocked turbine manufacturer GE Renewables from pulling out of the major offshore wind farm project, saying it would be “fanciful” to imagine a new contractor could finish the installation.
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A panel convened by WBUR is sorting through dozens of local entries into NPR's famed Tiny Desk Contest.
Fultz won the Boston Marathon on a day when temperatures neared 100 degrees. He's serving as the race's grand marshal this year.
In this excerpt from a conversation at WBUR's CitySpace, Whoop founder Will Ahmed discusses the Boston roots of his wearable tech brand with WBUR's Morning Edition host Tiziana Dearing.
The new airport shuttle service, which launched Thursday, runs three fixed routes through Boston, Cambridge and Somerville — and includes a "Ticket to Skip" pass that allows riders to go...
Here are some of the must-see people and places that dot the Boston Marathon route.
For centuries, the process of writing music has been the same, whether it’s done with pencil and paper or a computer: The art involves expressing human ideas through music. Generative...
The South Boston native who rose from the chief of immigration enforcement in ICE's Boston office to the top of the agency under President Trump is stepping down to join...
The Sugar Road Band is the brainchild of Berklee College of Music professor Leo Blanco.
Anne Brensley, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, and her husband owed tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes to the federal government as of March, according to public...
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has appointed Rodney Marshall as the city’s next fire commissioner. He is the first Black fire chief in the department’s nearly 350-year history.
After five years in Brookline, the contemporary art gallery is in a new 2,000-square-foot space in downtown Boston.
Nina Froes, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, served alongside 19 judges at the immigration court in Chelmsford. That court now has just five permanent and two temporary judges.
Carlos Sanchez, a 67-year-old Texas resident, and his 23-year-old granddaughter, Mia Sanchez, both qualified to run the 2026 Boston Marathon. Sanchez believes they're the first grandparent-grandchild duo to do it.
Budgetwriters had to account for a number of colliding fiscal challenges, including a sluggish economy, eroding federal support and two potential ballot questions that could put dollars back in taxpayers...
On Monday, Mia Sanchez and her grandfather, Carlos Sanchez, will run the Boston Marathon. They believe they're the first known grandparent and grandchild pair to qualify to run the marathon...
Produced by the Harvard ArtLab and artist-researcher Jacek Smolicki, the Walking Festival of Sound features a lineup of 19 soundwalks, listening sessions and talks from local artists and practitioners. The...
The unique holiday creates a patchwork of schedule changes. Here's what you need to know about what's open and how to get around on Patriots' Day.
This year’s Boston Marathon forecast looks chilly and breezy — a much better setup for runners than warm or wet conditions. For spectators, it means dressing in layers.
As a giant snow pile in Somerville slowly melts in the wake of the region's snowiest winter in a decade, city workers are retrieving a fleet of abandoned vehicles that...
The Massachusetts governor filed a bill Tuesday that would require social media companies to implement special default settings, with time limits and disabled features, for users under the age of...
The fiscal year 2026 supplemental budget that Healey filed Tuesday afternoon seeks to make up the deficit left behind by a harsh winter that dumped several feet of snow across...
Over the last few years, shoe technology has advanced tremendously. And it’s changing the sport of running for everyone from the elite athletes breaking the tape in Copley Square to...
While new grads always find the market daunting, added pressures on the employment landscape mean the current crop have their work cut out for them. And college seniors in Massachusetts...
Almost exactly 140 years ago, in an April 1886 decision, the Supreme Court called voting the "fundamental political right, because [it is] preservative of all rights." That right is now...
Plus, the National Center for Jewish Film’s Annual Film Festival and opening weekend of August Wilson's "Gem of the Ocean" from Actors' Shakespeare Project.
On Marathon Monday, 30,000 athletes from 137 countries and every state in the U.S. will flock to Hopkinton to kick off the race.
The host committee for FIFA men's World Cup matches this summer announced a direct bus service to Boston Stadium in Foxborough, which will cost more than MBTA train service to...
An album and podcast from the Silkroad Ensemble and Rhiannon Giddens was inspired by the Black and immigrant labor that built America’s railroads. In Boston, Black sleeping car porters unionized...
After more than a year of demolition and ground work, crews are beginning to install the concrete and steel backbone of the new White Stadium in Boston's Franklin Park this...
Boston will buck a growing trend and make its World Cup fan festival free, organizers confirmed Monday. The new comes as organizers in New York and Los Angeles say they'll...