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BOSTON, September 18, 2025 – A Lowell man will serve six months in the House of Correction after being convicted by a Suffolk County jury this week for taking a man’s gold chain necklace after the vic...

A man has died following an incident early Tuesday involving a Green Line trolley at Boston's North Station.

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The mother of the young man who was killed after falling onto the tracks at an MBTA station in Boston wants the agency to start improving safety.

As he prepared to move, Globe housing reporter Andrew Brinker waded through thousands of listings, unresponsive brokers, and fierce competition with other tenants.

Bars in this city with some 160,000 college students are cracking down on patrons with fake IDs to protect their costly liquor licenses.

At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, far-right leaders mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes.

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In this episode, Clemson professor Jonathan Beecher Field helps us explore the history of poor support in early New England and the surprising practice known as “warning out.” In the 17th- and 18th-ce...

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A New England Ledger audit of 1,333 stories found a clear pattern. Ed Flynn and Erin Murphy get to be the heroes. Progressive women and leaders of color get attacked. Black and Latino communities are ...

For an audience that grew to more than a million followers, she challenged assumptions about how people with serious illnesses should look and live.

In the heyday of WBZ and WCVB, these sportscasters competed for ratings. Now they co-host a podcast and show up for each other when it’s needed most.

After more than 32 years in office, Dean Mazzarella has become the longest serving mayor in Massachusetts history, managing to transform the city, limit his list of enemies, and remain an ever-present...

The games were a resounding success — but political infighting and a ruthless FIFA model sometimes left local organizers running on fumes.