On Nov. 8, the Boston Public Health Commission released a health advisory due to a cyanobacteria bloom in Sprague Pond in Hyde Park, which falls in the Neponset River watershed. For two weeks in ...

A new program from Greater Grove Hall Main Streets and Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center aims to provide type 2 diabetes patients who are also food-insecure with financial support to make ...

There’s a huge interest in wanting to meet people naturally,” says Matt Meyers, creative director of Night Cap. “People are looking again for that third space, a place for community to gather.” The ...

Some signs indicate efforts like the ones in Boston could be helping.

Local community leaders share their disappointment about the recent U.S. presidential election results, along with their praise for Vice President Kamala Harris and her campaign.

A new study by researchers at the Harvard University Kennedy School, Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that Black women who work on ...

Rudy Edwards Jr. showed courage through his 40 years of dedicated service as a Boston firefighter. Decorated for heroism many times over, firefighter Edwards survived to retire in 2019. Whether ...

In New Orleans, the NFC South Division-leading Atlanta Falcons, 6-4, lost to the 3-7 Saints, 20-17. The LA Chargers, 6-3, took the measure of the 2-7 Tennessee Titans 27-17 to hold on to the ...

Mission Hill’s Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help will soon come alive with the jazzy riffs and foot-tapping notes of Duke Ellington’s catalog. During a special community concert to commemorate ...

Most of the nation’s veterans are indeed men, in part because of barriers to women in the military that took far too long to fall. Without diminishing the contributions of male veterans, let us this ...

The causes of youth homelessness vary, with some people losing shelter or unable to secure it because of discrimination, family conflict, a lack of affordable housing, or, in Mack’s case, an ...

Ahead of its 10th anniversary in November 2025, the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts announced “BECMA@10,” a fundraising campaign during which the organization aims to raise $25 million.