Crews are again responding to manhole fires in downtown Boston for the second time this week.

Crews responded overnight to a report of manhole fires near Faneuil Hall in downtown Boston and remained on scene Sunday morning. Eversource says the smoking manholes at Union and North streets were caused by an underground equipment failure that burned cables. The Boston Fire Department and Eversource are working to fix the problem. No injuries have been reported and officials…

The Boston Fire Department and Eversource are on scene.

Parents in the college admissions cheating scandal, including actress Lori Loughlin, could soon be heading to trial. Attorneys for some parents were back in federal court in Boston Friday for an interim status conference hearing.

A man was arrested for allegedly shooting a gun on a baseball field in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood Thursday after an apparently friendly introduction turned into a proposition for a dog fight.

Attorneys for actress Lori Loughlin her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli were set to appear in Boston federal court Friday on their charges stemming from indictments in the college admissions scandal.

Attorneys for actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli appeared in Boston federal court Friday, a day after the U.S. Attorney’s Office released emails that appear to show the couple corresponding with the admitted mastermind of the college admissions scandal. The appearance comes after the U.S. Attorney’s Office filed hundreds of pages of emails, transcripts of...

The weekend is finally here, and while there is some snow in the forecast, don’t let it steer you away from all the great events happening throughout the city. From a Lunar New Year celebration at the Franklin Park Zoo to a block party at the Boston Children’s Museum and everything in between, check out our picks below. Friday,...

The howling wind brought multiple close calls Thursday in Boston and beyond. A construction accident in Medford, Massachusetts, was caused by the wind. Fire officials say a piece of steel was blown off a building under construction, hitting an inspector. Firefighters had to use a cherry-picker to lower the worker down. He was taken to a hospital, but there was…

The rapidly developing Boston Seaport District could end up underwater due to climate change.

An inmate at a Boston jail is staying behind bars for an additional six to seven years for attacking and severely injuring a guard, prosecutors said Thursday. Giovanni Buchanan, 25, was sentenced Wednesday for attacking a correctional officer at the Nashua Street Jail last January, according to the office of Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins. Buchanan will serve the sentence…

One of Massachusetts’ most widely known members of Congress, Ayanna Pressley, revealed for the first time that she has alopecia and is bald in an interview published Thursday.

One teenager has been charged with the murder of another in Boston’s first homicide of 2020. A 19-year-old man was killed Saturday evening in a double shooting on Washington Street in Dorchester. He was later identified as Treshawn Boyd of Boston. Another victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Wednesday, police announced that 18-year-old Daventy Walker of the city’s Mattapan neighborhood had...

With Alex Cora and Red Sox’s mutual decision to “part ways,” there is uncertainty on who will replace the manager.

The Red Sox are holding a news conference a day after the organization announced it would part ways with manager Alex Cora amid a sign-stealing scandal that has rocked Major League Baseball.

Manager Alex Cora has been fired by the Red Sox as the MLB weighs his discipline in the sign-stealing scandal.

Colton Bradford takes us inside the 31st Boston Wine Festival Kick-off Party presented by Boston Harbor Hotel.

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A lawsuit filed by the family of a Connecticut teen who was placed into state custody after a dispute over her diagnosis and put in psychiatric unit is scheduled to start Tuesday. The suit was brought by the parents of Justina Pelletier against Boston Children’s Hospital and those who treated their daughter, The Boston Globe reported Monday. “Justina has...

A 17-year-old Fenway High School student has been named the first youth poet laureate of Boston. Alondra Bobadilla called it “an incredible honor” to be named to the position, which advocates for poetry and the arts in Boston. “I hope that in the next two years I will be able to foster a fiery love and appreciation for all things…

Boston Properties Inc. holds the most valuable Boston properties, at least from the tax man’s perspective. The developer’s property in Boston proper soared past $4 billion in taxable assessed value in 2019, putting the real estate firm (NYSE: BXP) at the top of a list of the city’s largest taxpayers. City officials earlier this month published a list of the...