coronavirus in Boston

As Boston Public School districts pivot to remote learning, we’re following one family on their back-to-school journey during an unprecedented year.

Movie theaters, gyms and other businesses in Boston will be allowed to reopen starting Monday.

A second person tested positive Tuesday in Massachusetts with the more contagious variant of COVID-19 first detected in the United Kingdom, Public Health Commissioner Monica Bharel said. Bharel said the case of the B.1.1.7 variant was discovered by the Massachusetts Public Health Laboratory, but she did not offer further details. The first case of the new strain of the coronavirus…

Coronavirus vaccines are being rolled out at pharmacies across Massachusetts, a happy day for people who got their first dose.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh asks Bostonians to only celebrate the holidays with the people in their immediate households and urges residents not to travel to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

The Boston Teachers Union passed a vote of no confidence in Boston Public Schools superintendent Brenda Cassellius just hours before more than two dozen additional schools were set to resume in-person learning for high-needs students. The vote was held at an emergency meeting Sunday night. In a letter sent to members on Saturday, the union said it did not believe…

Hours before more than two dozen additional schools were set to resume in-person learning for high-needs students, the Boston Teachers Union on Monday passed a vote of no confidence in superintendent Brenda Cassellius.

Boston Public Schools on Monday was set to resume in-person learning at 28 schools, hours after the Boston Teachers Union had a no-confidence vote on the superintendent.

The next set of high needs students will return to classrooms on Monday.

Mayor Marty Walsh warned Thursday that Boston is “at a critical point” in its fight against COVID-19, and that a second shutdown of the economy would be “far worse” than the first. “What we’re seeing in Tennessee and other parts of the country and other parts of the world, honestly, we cannot afford to have that in Boston,” he...

Boston had its highest number of new cases in a day since June Thursday.

State officials are expected to release new information on communities across Massachusetts that are at high risk for COVID-19.

Mayor Marty Walsh said Wednesday that Boston’s COVID-19 numbers have stabilized somewhat in recent days even as the state readies itself for the implementation of new, stricter measures aimed at controlling the spread of the virus. State officials announced a new stay-at-home advisory and mask order along with what amounts to a restaurant curfew on Monday in response to...

As votes are counted across the country, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh urged residents to remember the threat of COVID-19.

Boston Mayor Walsh urged people to be respectful at the polls on Election Day, but said “we have no reason to believe there’s cause for concern,” even as some business owners have begun boarding up their windows in anticipation of potential violence or vandalism. “We’re all cautiously optimistic that Election Day will be incident free,” he said. “There’s a...

Some businesses in Boston were boarded up ahead of election day.

Security preparations were underway in Boston Monday at various businesses ahead of Election Day in the event of demonstrations.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Commissioner William Gross announced plans Monday for tightened security measures at the polls on Election Day.

Boston is considering pausing indoor dining and reducing indoor and outdoor gathering limits due to a continued spike in coronavirus cases in the city, according to the Boston Globe. The paper said Marty Martinez, Boston’s chief of health and human services, announced at a virtual roundtable Friday that the city is considering a two to three week pause on...