Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration on Wednesday ordered Boston and other communities to end local moratoriums on construction activity, saying the work is essential, despite the growing coronavirus pandemic. In a memo sent to local officials, Baker’s chief legal counsel, Robert C. Ross, wrote that pausing construction work woul...

For Portia Dayton, caring for her son in the days since his preschool was shuttered has been nervewracking. Dayton, a recovering addict, depends on support from Boston’s Horizons for Homeless Children as she works to change her circumstances. The nonprofit provides free early education, counseling and other services to ease the trauma of home...

The race is on to find a treatment for COVID-19. Inside a highly-secured lab, the only one of its kind in New England, researchers at Boston University are testing a live sample of the novel coronavirus. Microbiologist Rob Davey is one of the scientists feeling the pressure to help slow the growing pandemic. “There is a lot of urgency,”...

Three MBTA bus drivers have tested positive for COVID-19, the agency confirmed Wednesday afternoon, after sources reached out to the NBC10 Boston Investigators. The agency said it already cleaned and disinfected all exposed work areas, vehicles and equipment at its bus facility in a bid to protect its employees and riders. “We ask the public to kee...

Is construction work essential during a public health emergency? It’s a topic that has generated a number of concerned calls and emails to the NBC10 Boston Investigators over the past week. Some communities, most notably Boston, have already shut down projects in an effort to keep COVID-19 from spreading. However, at the state level, construction r...

Tufts President Calls on Massachusetts Colleges to Join Coronavirus Response

Health care workers are asking for the public’s help as they face a shortage of personal protective equipment, including the N95 respirator masks that are essential for working with patients infected by the novel coronavirus. The situation has them worried on the front lines as they fight against the growing pandemic.   “We are very conce...

Danni Aubain has cancer, so when she started to feel lousy late last month, she was especially worried. Aubain said the illness hit her like a ton of bricks. She had a fever of 103 degrees, and a horrible, dry cough. “I really couldn’t breathe,” she said, “and that’s scary for anyone undergoing chemo.” When she s...

Massachusetts’ previous projections shed light on how severe a public health emergency involving a novel respiratory disease could be in the Bay State, including how many could die.

An NBC10 Boston investigation detailed how the RMV had suspended a Lexington driver’s license from an out-of-state speeding ticket he settled in 2015.

Rabbi Keith Stern still remembers his first encounter with anti-Semitism. Stern was playing on the swings at his elementary school when a classmate told him a joke about Jewish people. He never told his father, a Holocaust survivor, fearing he would be furious about what his son had experienced. “I absolutely knew if he heard about this that ...

A 42-year Columbia Gas employee said his bosses ignored repeated warning about potential safety issues. But not federal investigators, who used the retired utility worker’s testimony to help build their criminal case. On Wednesday, Bart Maderios reacted to the federal criminal charges against his former employer. “I cried for days. It d...

James Yang got an unwelcome surprise in his mailbox from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles in January: A 60-day driver’s license suspension. The notice baffled the 64-year-old Lexington driver and his family. According to the RMV, the suspension was related to a speeding ticket he received while traveling through rural Virginia in ...