Critical Mass normally holds a large social bike ride on the last Friday of every month. Yesterday, participants rode in memory of John Corcoran, a bicyclist who died when a driver on Memorial Drive jumped the curb and slammed into him on the sidewalk near the BU boathouse during Monday's afternoon ...
Mary Ellen spotted this butterfly grabbing a meal at a flower at Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday.
The palm-sized, neon-yellow spider from Southeast Asia was first spotted weaving its signature web by a photographer on Beacon Hill this month. Experts say this is the northernmost confirmed sighting of a Joro spider in the U.S.
A New Jersey man who quit a job with Boston-based DraftKings to move to Los Angeles for a job with one of its online-betting archrivals, only to get sued by his former employers under the Massachusetts non-compete law, will have to make his case under Massachusetts law rather than California law, a ...
Gov. Healey today announced the state has taken control of St. Elizabeth's Medical in Brighton by eminent domain from its current private-equity owner to keep it open, rather than letting it simply fade away like Carney Hospital in Dorchester. Read more.
The presidential election between Harris and Trump is set for Nov. 5. This is also a chance for many districts to elect new state legislators. Here's all you need to know about your voting options and who's on the ballot.
CommonWealth Beacon reports the city is working with downtown and Seaport landlords to have them put up their temporary flood barriers on Boston's first Deployables Day to get building personnel used to using one of the cheaper technologies city planners hope to use to ward off rising sea levels and...
The job training program teaches trainees the necessary skills to pursue a culinary career, along with other life skills like nutrition education and financial literacy.
Community leaders say Dorchester may already be seeing negative health impacts from closure of Carney Hospital.
The MBTA announced today the Ashmont branch of the Red Line will be closed on Saturday so workers can remove one of those slow zones - and to make sure there aren't any potential problems left over from the Peabody Square lake that formed last week after a National Grid crew cracked open a BWSC wate...
The number of bicyclists we lose in collisions with cars, just in Somerville and Cambridge, is tragic and terrifying. 😭 https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/09/24/suv-driver-kills-bicyclist-on-memorial-drive-in-cambridge (I actually did check and make sure it wasn't @crschmidt@better.boston we lost...
The state's third through eighth graders lost ground in English language arts scores but held steady in math on their 2024 MCAS tests.
Massachusetts was among the first five states to pass regulations aimed at keeping food waste out of landfills and incinerators. According to new research in the journal Science, it's the only state where food waste bans are working.
Massachusetts public school students must pass standardized tests in order to graduate high school. Question 2 in the 2024 election asks voters to end or keep that requirement.
Supporters of the proposed audits say they would boost government transparency, while opponents argue that the audits would be an intrusion by the executive branch onto the legislative branch of government.
Boston City Councilors Sharon Durkan, Henry Santana, and Ben Weber say they have heard complaints about delayed or unarrived mail in several neighborhoods.
The New England Aquarium has partnered with Nintendo and brought the characters of the popular game Animal Crossing to educate visitors on the importance of marine life. For more, ask Alexa to play WBZ NewsRadio on #iHeartRadio.
The general minimum wage is $15 an hour under state law, but it's $6.75 for tipped workers. Question 5 seeks to gradually raise the tipped minimum wage to match the general minimum wage. Opponents argue the measure could harm workers and businesses.
The proposed law would create a regulatory framework for psychadelics' therapeutic use in Massachusetts. But like cannabis, substances like psilocybin and mescaline would remain illegal at the federal level.
A harmful cyanobacteria bloom takes over a section of the Charles River for the first time in four years.
One of the things that most people forget is that the t was saddled with a bunch of debt from the Big dig. This has prevented it from functioning and recovering from most of the problems of the last two decades.
I love the idea of this but I am a little confused by the metaphor. Who are the monsters in this? What does this actually teach kids about climate change? I'm not trying to be negative here I'm just a little confused.
Normally I would agree with you but she seems to be holding that tomato in two hands. How many tomatoes can you hold in two hands?
Thank you for all your thoughtful and persistent commentary in this thread. You've given me a lot to think about.
I don't care about dignity, I just don't want to die like my dad did. He had ALS and it was a very slow degeneration that seemed very painful.
Thank you for the analysis! I was afraid that this had no teeth and I think that fear may have been correct.
They would have to put it in a dirty basement or I just won't accept it as the rat.
They put in some work and they deserve some Internet points!
These shows where you have to fall in love seem like a dystopian nightmare to me, but I guess if people are entertained...
Haven't we already been granted a police state? In all seriousness hopefully these cameras will help.
I think the lottery is a tax on the poor and the uneducated. It should be banned along with other forms of gambling which just pray on human weakness.
I once went to one of the shows when it was in Bow Market. It was such a trip, because the majority of the audience was comedians waiting to take a turn on stage. It definitely had the feel of people testing out their craft mixed with the feel of karaoke.
If the medical system was run by people who actually cared about treating people over profit then the answer to that question would be obvious. Too bad it isn't.
I need to see the actual wording of the ballot questions. Sometimes they make it seem like a yes when it's actually a no. All of them sound good except I know nothing about number one.
Just a reminder, rapid onset gender dysphoria is a fiction invented by anti trans activists. In short, there is absolutely no evidence this is happening, all of the supposed study data comes from testimony of specifically anti-trans parents, and all of the medical treatments have been extremely conservative and hard to get by kids under the age of 18.
Linux. It was a Windows only problem. The real question is why are any corporations still using Windows at this day and age. I thought the only reason to stay on Windows was for gaming.
I also try to upvote comments which encourages people to participate. I know it seems small, but it lets people know that they are not commenting into a void.