“The Embrace” memorial was revealed to the public on the Boston Common to commemorate the love and solidarity between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, the Friday before...
With gun violence an ever-looming presence in America, the Engagement Lab at Emerson College is attempting to transform the healing process for survivors through its Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence...
By Maeve Lawler , Kasteel Well Bureau Chief December 12, 2022
The Medford Branch, part of the MBTA’s Green Line Extension, opened to passengers on Monday at 4:52 a.m. Hundreds of Boston commuters, many being Tufts University students, waited at College Avenue Station...
By Maeve Lawler, Kasteel Well Bureau Chief December 12, 2022
CharlieCards, used to pay for MBTA subway and bus rides, can be hacked using an Android phone, according to a Boston-based cybersecurity expert Bobby Rauch.
The MBTA says that, for now, all it can...
By Maeve Lawler, Kasteel Well Bureau Chief December 12, 2022
The Federal Transit Administration asked the MBTA on Tuesday to revise 12 of its 20 proposed plans to increase the safety and functioning of the T.
The proposals followed safety management inspections...
By Ashlyn Wang, Staff Writer and Photographer December 7, 2022
Ava Straccia stopped in front of a poster station in the Boston Common, listening to a woman detail her experience of homelessness and mental health struggles. This story was among 22 other anonymous submissions...
Boston hosted the Earthshot Prize Awards on Friday, celebrating the innovators fighting climate change on an international scale.
In anticipation of the ceremony, Emerson projected a series of images...
Disclaimer: names were omitted to protect the identity of sources.
Hundreds gathered near the Tiananmen Memorial in Boston’s Chinatown last Friday for a candlelight vigil to honor the victims of the...
Last Friday, hundreds of people gathered at the Boston Chinatown gate to honor the victims of the Ürümqi apartment fire, which left 10 dead after a delayed emergency response. At the event, there was...
By Ryan Forgosh, Staff Writer, News December 6, 2022
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Beheshteh Ghaderi and her husband John traveled an hour to Boston to show their support for those suffering under the regime...
On Friday, as President Biden met with Prince William, hundreds of rail workers protested outside the JFK Presidential Library. Just hours prior, Biden signed legislation preventing a rail worker strike...
By Ryan Forgosh, Staff Writer, News December 5, 2022
Just before 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, Mayor Michelle Wu, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, and WCVB hosts flipped the switch to light the Nova Scotian Christmas tree and illuminate the Boston Common, ringing...
By Ryan Forgosh, Staff Writer, News November 30, 2022
Now that Thanksgiving is over, tree lightings spring up across Boston, including Copley Square’s Christmas tree lighting on Nov. 28.
The square was filled with holiday spirit as families excitedly...
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed a bill making the Podokesaurus holyokensis the state’s official dinosaur in a ceremony at the Museum of Science in October.
State Representative Jack Lewis...
By Ryan Forgosh, Staff Writer, News November 19, 2022
Three years, one pandemic, and $95 million later, renovations at City Hall Plaza have concluded, and it has finally reopened to the public on Nov. 18.
Since July 2020, City Hall Plaza has been closed...
By Maeve Lawler, Kasteel Well Bureau Chief November 17, 2022
Since construction began in 2018, the Medford branch of the Green Line will open on Dec. 12, announced MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak at Thursday’s board meeting.
The branch, which services College...
By Olivia LeDuc, Assistant News Editor November 16, 2022
Unionized employees from HarperCollins, one of the largest book publishers in the country, began an indefinite strike on Nov. 10 due to frustrations over low wages and lack of diversity within the company.
“It’s...
After spending the last four years rising through the federal court system, Haaland v. Brackeen reached the Supreme Court on Nov. 9, challenging the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act which...
By Maeve Lawler, Kasteel Well Bureau Chief November 16, 2022
The MBTA hosted a virtual public meeting on Monday to discuss revisions to the Bus Network Redesign project after receiving over 20,000 comments on the initial proposal released in May. The project aims...