Area groups are trying to make up some of the loss in SNAP federal food assistance that started Saturday. The Worcester County Food Bank distributes food to meal programs, shelters...
State Sen. Peter Durant joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss how local and national politics have aligned to produce the unusual partisan standoff in a high-stakes moment for food access.
Cog editor Cloe Axelson interviewed Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and her dog Bailey, who's dressing up as Stephen Colbert for Halloween this year. They talked about dogs, political humor in a...
Massachusetts Congresswoman Lori Trahan says the state does not have enough money in its rainy day fund to cover the food assistance program SNAP and other federal benefits that will...
Kailera Therapeutics raised $600 million in a recent funding round for two new drugs to manage obesity.
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The Boston Globe's Spotlight team found the operation mostly caught low-level offenders and people in the throes of addiction.
The goal is to mimic the natural features of the shorelines — enough to attract some sea creatures to make the wall their new home. So far, it's working.
Boston College Law School professor Ray Madoff says the wealthiest Americans are able to effectively opt out of paying taxes altogether.
Pediatricians across Greater Boston said they are extending patient visits and booking follow-up appointments to talk to families about vaccines, sometimes at the expense of other important topics like sleep...
In 2019, John Hancock announced it had found a camera hidden in the women's locker room. But six years and one lawsuit later, former employees told WBUR they feel those...
The artist was a cornerstone of Boston’s Black arts community, welcoming mentees into his South End home and offering unwavering support. He helped shape careers, leaving a legacy defined not...
Each fall, thousands of intricately carved pumpkins light up Roger Williams Park Zoo's Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular.
Evan Horowitz of Tufts University's Center for State Policy Analysis joins WBUR's Morning Edition to explain why the seemingly sleepy legislation is in the spotlight.
Salem native Robby Roadsteamer was arrested after taunting ICE while wearing a giraffe costume during a protest in Portland last week. Underneath his absurdity, there's a serious aim: bringing laughter...
A pair of landmark exhibitions at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Boston Athenaeum celebrate Allan Rohan Crite’s vivid portrayals of Black life in Boston. Featuring more than 100 works,...
The new documentary by a local filmmaker about the intense Boston music scene of the 1970s and '80s is full of interviews with and archival footage of artists that helped...
Screening as part of the Boston Palestine Film Festival, “Put Your Hand on Your Soul and Walk” depicts one year of Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona’s life in Gaza, culminating in...
Bucknell University womens rowing coach and Brookline native, Katy Ruderman is leading the team in their first regatta appearance in six years.
Musician and composer Rob Kapilow of the "What Makes it Great?" performance series is in Boston to perform and dissect Haydn's Opus 76.
Amy Carnevale, chair of the Massachusetts GOP, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss the state of the primary.
Hundreds of local giant pumpkin growers race toward personal bests and heaviest weights. And this is their season. Their Super Bowl is the Topsfield Fair, when the best bring their...
It’s getting harder for immigrants to win release from custody, even when they're in dire health.
“We chose the statues of Michael and Florian to honor Quincy’s first responders, not to promote any religion,” said Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch.
In a campaign video released Wednesday morning, Moulton said the Democratic Party "has clung to the status quo," and it's time to "change course."
Scott Kirsner, with our editorial partner MassLive, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss on how the technology is changing the job market.
In the few weeks since announcing his run for Senate, political outsider Graham Platner is drawing big crowds and raising lots of money. But Maine's incumbent, Republican Sen. Susan Collins,...
On its opening night in 1900, Boston's Symphony Hall drew patrons in more than 250 carriages and headlines nationwide. Today, the landmark’s revolutionary acoustics — engineered by a Harvard physics...
Every year in the early weeks of fall, Aroostook County potato farmers race to dig up their fields before the first frosts hit. Since at least the 1940s, students get...
If you ride the MBTA, chances are you’ve seen an alert about a signal problem delaying your train. The T is in the middle of a project to improve the...
The Boston mayor’s race may be all but decided, as incumbent Michelle Wu runs unopposed, but there are other races afoot. In the election for City Council, a conservative-leaning, "lunch-bucket...
The state plans to take 13 homes through eminent domain for the massive $4.5 billion Sagamore and Bourne Bridge project.
Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss says the shutdown fight Tuesday is an opportunity for the Democratic party to rebrand itself.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu discusses why crime statistics are always on the tip of her tongue.
A Lexington, Massachusetts, startup, Blue Water Autonomy, raised $50 million to build a 150-foot autonomous warship.
Using materials like plaster, glass and wire, the artist creates abstract, textured wall sculptures inspired by forms found in nature. Nanajian tries to represent all the ways that human memory...
The audio explorer and plant DJ collaborates with gardens and trees to turn up the volume on their hidden role in our environment.
The Providence musician released his first album of Black mountain music during America’s racial reckoning. Amid Trump’s DEI purge and environmental collapse, his Afrofuturist folk hits different.
The Iranian-born artist transforms memories and conversations into visual stories. Exploring longing, displacement, and belonging, Sarabi charts connections between cultures, people and place, even from oceans apart.
Joan Brugge's research into breast cancer is one of hundreds of projects at Harvard caught up in an ongoing dispute with the Trump administration over the university’s handling of antisemitism...