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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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Boston City Council dedicated the bulk of its agenda toward examining accessibility in Boston at its meeting on Wednesday afternoon in City Hall.
One of the main points of discussion at the meeting...
Last month, President Joe Biden pardoned thousands of people convicted of marijuana possession at the federal level. Emerson students and experts alike believe the pardon moves toward repairing the harmful...
Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey scored a historic win Tuesday night after becoming the first elected female governor in Massachusetts and the first openly lesbian governor in the nation.
The...
With plans being finalized, renovations to the Boston Common’s entrances and borders, upgraded amenities for visitors, and improved recreational areas like the tennis courts and Frog Pond are underway.
Working...
At the Boston Harbor Hotel, voters for former Massachusetts State Representative Geoff Diehl gathered to await what they hoped to be the election of another Republican governor for Massachusetts. Supporters...
Last March, the Senate unanimously approved the Sunshine Protection Act, a federal law that concretes daylight saving time as the standard year-round time in the U.S., putting an end to the twice-annual...
From 5:16 to 6:41 a.m. Bostonians and others on the East Coast looking up into the northwestern sky saw the moon completely bathed in a dark red hue in a total lunar eclipse. Tuesday morning’s was the...
