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A California appeals court has upheld an order requiring Uber and Lyft to treat their California drivers as employees instead of independent contractors, less than two weeks before voters will be asked to exempt the ride-hailing giants from the state’s gig economy law.

A state appeals court intervened Thursday in an ongoing legal battle involving Lyft and Uber, granting an emergency order to prevent a planned shutdown of ride services in California. Lyft announced in a blog post earlier Thursday that the company will suspend its operations Thursday night across California. Operations were expected to halt beginning at 11:59 p.m. Thursday, the company…

A 36-year-old man in Florida is charged with battery and child abuse after he tore down a plastic safety partition and attacked a Lyft driver. According to a sheriff’s press release, the man was charged with child abuse because a 7-year-old boy was riding in the car and the attack put him in danger.

Massachusetts will become the second state ever to pursue legal action against ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft over their classification of workers, Attorney General Maura Healey announced Tuesday. Healey filed a lawsuit against the two companies alleging that, by categorizing their nearly 200,000 Massachusetts drivers as independent contractors rather than employees, Uber and Lyft are violating the state’s wage and…

People looking for a ride are often having difficulty finding one nearby.

The rideshare industry is making drastic changes to the way you ride.

Uber and Lyft drivers are still considered essential, even with so many people working from home.

A woman’s unexpected trip from downtown Boston to a gas station near the New Hampshire border early Sunday morning was not a kidnapping, as she thought, but a misunderstanding, Boston police said Monday.

Police say an Allston woman who thought she was getting into a ride-sharing service car reported that she was kidnapped near Boston’s busy Faneuil Hall and taken on a half-hour drive before managing to escape near the New Hampshire border. The woman in her 20s said she ordered a Lyft around 12:50 a.m. Sunday after spending the night out...

Boston police are investigating after an Allston woman who thought she was getting into a ride-sharing service car reported that she was kidnapped near Boston’s busy Faneuil Hall and taken on a half-hour drive before managing to escape near the New Hampshire border.

Boston police say a woman who thought she was getting into a ride-sharing service car in the city says she was kidnapped by the driver and taken on a half-hour drive before being able to escape near the New Hampshire border.

The actor was in Miami promoting his new movie, “Bad Boys for Life,” over the weekend. He picked up four riders in a 2020 Porsche Taycan, occasionally getting into the attitude of his movie character detective Mike Lowry and encouraging passengers to do their best Bad Boys imitation as his partner in crime.

Rideshare safety was front and center at the Massachsuetts State House Friday as lawmakers consider a crackdown on the services. The legislation that was introduced by Gov. Charlie Baker includes more protections for a rider’s personal information, stiffer penalties for what’s known as “account renting” and more trip data collection. Those in favor of the bill said the data...

The safety of people who use rideshare services like Uber and Lyft is front and center on Beacon Hill.

More than 3,000 sexual assaults were reported during U.S. Uber rides in 2018, the company said in a long-awaited safety report. That figure includes 229 rapes across the company’s 1.3 billion rides. Uber noted that drivers and riders were both attacked, and that some assaults occurred between riders. In 2017, the company said 2,936 sexual assaults were reported.

New York will be the first state to make tuition at public colleges and universities free for middle-class students under a state budget approved by lawmakers Sunday.

With holiday travel right around the corner, do you know where to catch an Uber or a Lyft at Logan International Airport?

A Lyft driver was assaulted and carjacked by a man who crashed shortly after, according to police.

If you woke up to a weird text that seemed totally out of place, you aren’t alone. A mysterious wave of missives swept America’s phones overnight, delivering confusing messages from friends, family and the occasional ex. Friends who hadn’t talked to each other in months were jolted into chatting. Others briefly panicked. A telecom vendor called Syniverse said a server...

More rideshare users traveling through Boston Logan International Airport will now be using the new, centralized location to be picked up in their Ubers, Lyfts and other app-based rides. Monday, Nov. 4, is when all rideshare passengers being picked up at Logan will meet their vehicles at Central Parking.