Community College

All faculty, staff and students who attend on-campus classes at the 15 community colleges in Massachusetts will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by January 2022, the presidents of those schools announced Monday. The heads of the Bunker Hill, Bristol, Cape Cod, Berkshire, Greenfield, Holyoke, Massasoit, MassBay, Middlesex, Mount Wachusett, North Shore, Northern Essex, Quinsigamond, Roxbury, and Springfield Technical community…

While some universities are requiring students returning to campus this fall to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, but community colleges are not yet making such a move.

The presidents of Massachusetts’ community colleges are strongly urging their students to get vaccinated against COVID-19 but say there are no plans yet to mandate vaccinations. In a statement Thursday, the presidents of the state’s 15 community colleges urged students to get vaccinated as soon as they are able to do so, saying it is the best way to return…

Emerson College is the latest in a growing list of universities that will require students to get vaccinated against coronavirus in order to return to campus this fall.

The transition to remote learning has been hard on community colleges, which don’t have the resources of other colleges and universities.

A Massachusetts community college campus was evacuated Thursday and 20 people received medical attention after having trouble breathing. Bristol Community College’s campus in New Bedford was evacuated about 10 a.m., the school said in a statement, after an unknown odor was detected.

This is the first of six weekends that part of the Orange Line will be shut down for repairs, and commuters aren’t thrilled.

If you use the MBTA’s Orange Line on weekends, plan on disruptions at certain stations until mid-November.

A track fire on the MBTA’s Orange Line caused the evacuation of a train between stations and massive service disruptions on Friday afternoon. For hours, shuttle buses replaced trains for several stops along the line toward the Oak Grove terminus, the MBTA said. Full service was eventually restored just before 7 p.m.; earlier, service on the entire line had been...

A local Marine is going from community college to Harvard University.

The LA County Probation Department recorded 747 uses of pepper spray in 2017 at juvenile halls and camps, a jump of 154 percent over 2015 when the department used pepper spray 294 times, according to an analysis of department data. It appears that trend is likely to continue, as between January and July of this year the department reported 404...

The bitter cold once again impacted service on several commuter rails and subway lines on the MBTA Friday morning.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh have announced a tuition-free college program.