A federal judge in Boston has ordered the release of a 14-year-old girl detained by federal agents on Tuesday. The girl was transported through the night to a juvenile facility in New York when agents ...

Meteorological winter — defined as December, January and February — has come to a close. The numbers confirm what New ...

The Wild Benches of Hope, a public art series of three bronze benches highlighting endangered animals is now on display at ...

From an exploration of how technology can be used for connection to a display of miniature sanctuary cities, WBUR contributor ...

Iran's new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, said in televised remarks Thursday that the Strait of Hormuz — the shipping route for a fifth of the world’s oil supply — should remain closed.

The Senate has passed the largest housing bill in decades — bipartisan legislation designed to improve housing affordability ...

Massachusetts was on the brink of becoming a global laughingstock — with politicians and sports executives and town officials unable to come to an agreement over $7.8 million in security costs, a sum ...

The announcement comes after weeks of wrangling and at times bitter disagreement between the parties and Foxborough's select board over nearly $8 million in security costs the town says it needs to be ...

The 98th annual Academy Awards will be held this Sunday, March 15, which is at least a month too late, writes WBUR film critic Sean Burns. "We’ve been talking about last year’s movies for so long ...

Boston's annual parade to mark St. Patricks Day and Evacuation Day is coming again to the streets of Southie. Here's all you need to know about this year's event.

"Any American who has been alive for the past quarter century — especially veterans of our post-9/11 military adventures like ...

A group of teenagers that formed a rock band in the 1960s never released their music until now. Here & Now ’s Peter O’Dowd learns more about how a new album from The Glass Cage came to light more than ...