However, in January 2024, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled in Commonwealth v. Mattis that sentencing people, ages 18 through ...

The same pattern appears in agriculture, where African societies developed resilient, adaptive, and scientifically informed farming systems long before Europe stabilized its own. Agricultural ...

Between roughly 700 and 1500 CE, West Africa controlled one of the world’s most important commercial systems: the trans-Saharan trade. Empires such as the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire, and the ...

The expedition passed through Brookfield, Spencer, Leicester, Worcester, Shrewsbury, Northborough, Marlborough, Southborough, Framingham, Wayland, Weston, Waltham and Watertown. John Adams reported ...

Photojournalist Craig Murray, of Marshfield, exhibits his favorite photos from the 1970s and 1980s at Hingham Library through Feb. 5, 2026.

Dr. Charlotte Norton pursued a long career as a physician while raising her family as a single mother in the late 1800s.

At the municipal level in Dec. 2024, Louijeune brought forward a resolution reaffirming the Boston Trust Act, which limits cooperation between Boston police and federal immigration authorities. The ...

From a single inspired by larvae squirming in the dirt to a comically enlightening track about waiting on hold with an insurance company, our music critics share their favorite music from the month.

Owners of the nearly 1,000-acre site, the former Hercules munitions plant in Roxbury, want the courts to throw out restrictions on some development.

The Boston City Council is set to take up a measure that would back a developer challenging the mayor’s plan to scrap its ...

Jean Appolon Expressions, the Haitian folkloric and contemporary dance organization, celebrated the grand opening of its new ...

Boston city councilors are seeking more transparency around Mayor Michelle Wu’s decision to plan for a new high school for most of a long-vacant Roxbury site that had been eyed for economic ...