About 10 percent of greater Boston storefronts are now empty, but in Cambridge, city leaders have gotten creative, employing strategies like paying local artists to exhibit artwork in vacant buildings to help liven up the spaces

Hang out in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood and you might spot Gracie Baruzzi taking a stroll with a four-legged companion at her side. For the past six months, people have hired Baruzzi to get their pooches some exercise via the popular dog walking app, Wag!, which she describes as “Uber for dogs.” For the oncology nurse at Boston Children’s......

As the first snow of the season fell across the Boston area, Lindsay Crudele invited me to her Dorchester home to observe what she described
as a “hideous tangle of bureaucracy” in her backyard. The eyesore is more commonly known as a utility pole, which had
teetered precariously amidst wires and tree branches for weeks.

After losing twice in court, the retirement board in Winthrop, Massachusetts, is renewing its push to strip the town’s former police chief of his pension and claw back more than $1 million of retirement benefits he received over the last two decades. A lawyer for Winthrop’s retirement system argued in court Thursday that former chief An...

Jason Moreno isn’t the type of student you’d expect to receive extra attention from his teachers. Moreno plays sports and serves on student council at the Snowden International School in Boston, where he’s a sophomore. Teachers say he’s bright and funny. He has plenty of friends, and he goes home each night to a supportive f...

The company working at a bridge project in Haverhill, Massachusetts, where one worker died and another was injured Wednesday has a history of serious workplace safety violations, including a 2016 incident in which an employee was killed, according to federal records reviewed by the NBC10 Boston Investigators. Officials from the Massachusetts Depart...

Dave Baillargeon rediscovered his Catholic faith more than a decade ago when his daughter was baptized. “I would be with the blessed sacrament in the church and just praying for maybe an hour before Mass, and I felt that God was calling me to do something else,” he said. “Something more.” That calling was so strong that 14 y...

U.S. Sen. Edward Markey is calling on Tesla to improve its driver assistance system after a report from NBC10 Boston exposed how drivers are skirting one of its key safety features. In a letter to CEO Elon Musk, Markey urged the electric car maker last week to prevent Tesla owners from bypassing an automatic shut-off feature designed to make sure.....

There is no single solution that fits every family, but a 529 college savings plan is often a good choice. The money can be withdrawn tax-free if used for college expenses. Just make sure you have a plan that doesn’t charge a commission or fee.

Some 44 million Americans have outstanding education loans, and for many, the burden of making monthly payments can be crushing. But for a small number of borrowers who truly can’t afford to pay back their debt, there may be a solution they’ve overlooked: going to bankruptcy court.

After processing 102,051 applications from borrowers across the country, the U.S. Department of Education has granted loan forgiveness in only 1,216 cases so far, according to the latest federal data. That’s an acceptance rate hovering around 1 percent.

According to federal data, roughly 1 million people in Massachusetts have school loans. Earning a bachelor’s degree at a typical four-year private school in the state will saddle the average student with around $25,000 in debt, according to the U.S. Department of Education. And for many, that debt weighs like an anchor, delaying major milesto...

Boston’s been ranked as having the worst commute in the country. Some workers say they’d rather move out of state than deal with the slow crawl anymore. But for some bus riders, there’s a silver lining — a simple, cheap solution that could get you moving faster.