Dorothea Dix was nearly 40 when she first stepped foot inside the East Cambridge Jail in 1841 to teach Sunday school to women ...

We invite readers to send us photos from around the community. These are from an event on Nov. 27, where friends and family ...

Discussion of zoning fills the City Council meeting agenda for Monday, but also appearing are updates on the unhoused at a ...

December, darkness, holiday lights, songs about partridges in pear trees and turtledoves and calling birds – what the heck ...

A Black man who was denied service in Caffé Nero in Central Square last month when he was confused with another Black man ...

The zoning laws “constitute a taking of private property for public use without just (or any) compensation,” a violation of ...

Public meetings this week look at layoffs that drew a backlash, surveillance technology, community benefits from developers ...

A burst of brightness came to a gloomy stretch of Church Street last month as the Christian Science Reading Room restored ...

The shooting machine – which cost several thousand dollars, according to lab founder Matthew Meyersohn – was funded by the ...

Record Store Day just passed us by last weekend. Yet the special day comes and goes, and not a peep from these pages.

A service that helps communities nationwide notify residents of critical emergencies remains inaccessible to individual users ...

In theaters now are “Wake Up Dead Man,” the third “Knives Out” and due soon on streaming, and the flawed afterlife dramedy “Eternity.” ...