Cambridge residents in the neighborhood known as The Port were left without power late Friday night, after four utility poles fell down on Washington Street.

Utility poles in Cambridge snapped Friday night, leaving the area of Washington Street without power.

A couple of hundred people rallied near Boston on Thursday to call for diplomacy to prevail between the United States and Iran following an American strike that killed the top Iranian general. On a bitterly cold evening, around 200 people marched through Cambridge, carrying hand-printed signs that read: “Hands off Iran” and “No war with Iran.” They then gathered to…

Cambridge has selected a Muslim woman who immigrated to the U.S. from Pakistan as a child to be mayor, in an apparent first for Massachusetts. Sumbul Siddiqui, who was in her second term as a city councilor, was selected by her peers. The mayor serves as chair of both the City Council and the School Committee as well as...

A year after a Massachusetts man was murdered, his family came forward to ask the public for help. Paul Wilson, 60, of Cambridge, was found with multiple blunt force injuries to his head in Danehy Park on Jan. 2, 2019. Despite an exhaustive investigation, police still do not have a suspect. “My brother would have been the last person I…

A heartbroken family is asking for answers a year after Paul Wilson was beaten to death in a Cambridge park.

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

A Cambridge restaurant that had originally planned to expand to a number of locations has quietly shut down....

According to a poster within the...Friends of Boston’s Hidden Restaurants...Facebook group page and a...tweet...from @deedubya, Tom’s BaoBao in Harvard Square is closed for good, with a recent Facebook...comment...from the place (which was buried in a months-old post) confirming...

A food truck owner’s actions captured the hearts of the internet when he was seen giving a homeless man a meal at a red light in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bill McAllister of Billy Bear Catering was driving his food truck when he got out of his vehicle at a red light and offered a meal to a homeless man, according...

Two restaurants in the Boston area were honored in OpenTable’s Top 100 Restaurants in America for 2019 list, compiled from reviews for more than 30,000 eateries in the country. Brassica Kitchen + Cafe in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood and The Table at Season to Taste in Cambridge were both mentioned in this year’s list for their culinary delights. “We are…

A stranger grabbed a 13-year-old girl by the arm Monday in Cambridge, Massachusetts, according to police. The man allegedly grabbed the girl around 6 p.m. in the area of Windsor Street and Palermo Street. She was walking home from the Frisoli Youth Center at the time. The girl managed to escape. She was not injured in the incident, Cambridge police…

This week’s Restaurant Roundup has closures of many local destinations in the Boston area.

It looks like a pizzeria in Harvard Square that has been around for more than 15 years has closed its doors....

According to a...tweet...from @K8_Bowers, Cambridge 1 on Church Street is no longer in business, with a note out front thanking its guests for their patronage. Phone calls to the pizza spot this afternoon are going unanswered, though its...

One man was dead and another man seriously injured early Thursday after authorities say a car crashed into a tree near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts.   Cambridge police said the crash happened just before 4 a.m. in the area of 1270 Massachusetts Ave., where the driver crashed through a fence and into a tree. The driver and passenger, whose...

One man was killed and another seriously injured in an early morning car crash near Harvard Square.

A man is on trial in Boston for offering $500 to anyone who would kill a federal immigration officer. The trial of Brandon Ziobrowski opened Monday in federal court and is expected to continue through the week.

Firefighters have responded to a small but stubborn and smoky fire in a Harvard University building.

This week’s Restaurant Roundup includes an Ethiopian spot closing, a new BBq spot on Route 1 and the expansion of a bubble tea destination.

A security guard who was working at a Boston store has been indicted on charges that he choked and punched an 11-year-old shoplifter last summer. Mohammad Khan, 36, of Cambridge, is charged with assault and battery on a child under 14 and a civil rights violation. His employer, Securitas Security Services USA Inc. of New Jersey, was also indicted on...