Indicted Suffolk County sheriff steps away from duties
Steven Tompkins is accused of using his position to extort an executive of a Boston cannabis company.
Massachusetts ecologists build a winter ‘hotel’ for snakes
The success of the rocky structure will be measured once temperatures drop.
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Cambridge city councilor facing charges of buying sex in high-end brothel case
Cambridge City Councilor Paul F. Toner was identified in a probable cause hearing on Friday in Cambridge District Court. He's one of 11 people identified during the second day of hearings on the case. -
Clea Simon’s novel ‘The Butterfly Trap’ is a tale of obsession and desperation
Author Clea Simon has written more than 30 books. Her latest is "The Butterfly Trap," a "he said, she said" story. -
House specials give Mass. voters first choices of 2025
Both parties have candidates in spring elections north and south of Boston -
66 years after trains left, South Coast is ready for commuter rail
The region hasn’t had a train to Boston since the 1950s, when highways became king. Now, after more than three decades of political promises and $1 billion spent, South Coast Rail is scheduled to open Monday. -
What to know about the declassified JFK assassination files
More than 63,000 pages of documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy have been released to the public.
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What Is Owed?
Boston has begun to wrestle with the notion of paying reparations to Black people to make up for 400 years of enslavement and economic exclusion. -
The Big Dig
This Peabody Award–winning podcast dives into the cynicism that hangs over the topic of American infrastructure. No project embodies that cynicism quite like ‘The Big Dig.’
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