Last week, Governor Maura Healey signed the updated Shield Law, which prevents the disclosure of sensitive data, such as a physician’s name, and formally establishes that abortions are to be provided ...

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven W. Tompkin was charged with extortion involving the purchase of an equity interest in a Boston-based cannabis company by federal authorities last week.

Boston Senior Home Care (BSHC), a trusted provider of home- and community-based services, has been awarded a $50,000 grant from Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, ...

Eight community-led projects were selected last month to receive the inaugural round of grants via the Friends of the Public Graden’s Henry Lee Fund for Boston Parks to improve and restore greenspaces ...

In addition to a historic increase of Chapter 90 funding to an all-time high of $300 million, the bill includes authorization for additional capital infrastructure investments through MassDOT that ...

Bridge Over Troubled Waters (Bridge), a nonprofit in Boston, Massachusetts, focused on serving youth experiencing homelessness, has recently acquired a harm reduction vending machine which will ...

The Boston Athenaeum’s newest installation, ‘Exhibiting China,’ will reunite, for the first time in 175 years, five portraits by Chinese artist Lamqua that were a part of the Athenaeum’s first ...

However, all good things must come to an end, and so too it is with summer. The days now are noticeably shorter, and with the sunset inching southward each day, the shadows cast in the late afternoon ...

Japan’s surrender was preceded the week before by the dropping of two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9). Both of those bombs, which fell on targets of ...

Governor Maura Healey is announcing that the final hotel shelters in Massachusetts are closed, months ahead of schedule. She is also formally terminating an emergency declaration she issued in August ...

Six more rehabilitated sea turtles are back in the ocean waters off Cape Cod following the New England Aquarium’s fourth release event of the season.

Governor Maura Healey is reminding Massachusetts renters, landlords and brokers that the state’s new policy banning forced renter-paid broker’s fees goes into effect today, August 1. Earlier this year ...