The Ivy League school announced the change Tuesday, effective this fall. Yale joins other universities, such as Harvard and ...

For 32 years, Olive McSweeney Sheehan has run a family child care center out of her Boston home. She loves the work she does, ...

The six people killed when a private jet crashed during takeoff at a Maine airport included an event planner on her way to ...

Other highlights from Greater Boston’s creative offerings include a bold film festival showcasing the projects of young, ...

Matthew Shifrin is on a mission to make Legos accessible for blind people through his non-profit Bricks for the Blind.

By the time she was 13, Jennifer Serafyn was thoroughly sick of having a January birthday. “I wish it was warm on my birthday ...

A lot happens in Boston every day. To help you keep up, WBUR, Boston's NPR News station, pulled these stories together just for you.

Virginia Oliver, known as the “lobster lady,” worked in the male-dominated industry for nearly a century. Oliver passed away on Jan. 21, as noted in a family obituary on Monday.

In 1985, NASA chose Christa McAuliffe, a Framingham, Mass. native and high school teacher in Concord, New Hampshire, to be the first civilian to go into space.

A federal judge issued a temporary pause on a Trump administration order that halted construction on Vineyard Wind in late ...

Boston recorded 23.2 inches after the Sunday-into-Monday storm — placing it in the top 10 for highest storm totals on record.

Israel could reopen the Rafah border crossing, which separates Egypt and Gaza, allowing people to enter and exit the enclave.