Hurricane Isaias has hit the U.S. Gulf Coast, leaving hundreds of thousands without power in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. The storm made landfall Friday as a Category 2 hurricane near Destin, Florida. It caused flooding and downed trees as it moved inland. Forecasters warn of life-threatening storm surges and possible tornadoes in the Southeast over the weekend.

The MBTA says the ads calling out Boston Public Schools for "failing" some students did not comply with its advertising guidelines. The city of Boston and the teacher's union are taking umbrage with the campaign's message.

Senior investigative reporter Patrick Madden joins WBUR's All Things Considered to break down the case. 

A more diverse distribution of money and power could potentially benefit people of all ages. But to get there, what steps can we take toward intergenerational justice?

Question 8 will ask voters whether to repeal the laws that made Massachusetts the sixth state in the country to legalize recreational marijuana sales.

Is dissatisfaction with Trump depressing the Republican vote?

While incarcerated, their prison job is to translate textbooks for blind students. Many of them continue with that work as a career after they get out.

In the past month or so, the world seems to be waking up to warnings that rogue AI could escape its human creators and kill everyone on earth.

Independent news organizations were shuttered,. Journalists were threatened, searched, arrested, and faced time in prison for reporting.

"Cupertino" is named after the city that Apple calls home and stars two lawyers fighting for the little guy against Big Tech. It's already become one of the best-reviewed shows of the year.

KidzBop churns out clean versions of popular songs. It strips out any explicit language or references to sex and repackages even the raunchiest songs in the bright, cheerful voice of a child.

​The Big Tech companies are facing legal challenges and public backlash across the country, so they’ve been looking abroad for new opportunities.

This year's annual Balloon Fiesta ends on Sunday.

Arizona State hockey player Matthew Mayich is on life support after he experienced a heat stroke during an August training workout.

It's been almost a year since the start of universal child care in New Mexico.

The Nobel committee said she’s been instrumental in ensuring that war crimes and genocide are prosecuted.

Hurricane Isaias has been upgraded to a Category 3 storm, sustaining top winds of 120 mph as it barrels toward the Florida panhandle and coastal Alabama.

For the designers, the project is a “proof of concept” to show how affordable housing in Boston can include innovative building techniques, durable materials, energy efficiency and higher-end architectural details. The final available unit — a three bedroom, first-floor unit in Fields Corner — is still open for buyers.

Around Halloween, people have options — they can thrift their costumes, pull from their closets, or buy from retailers like Spirit Halloween and Amazon. Boston Costume's rental supervisor shares how the store has pivoted in recent years to keep up.

According to the department, correction officers responded a report of self-harm in the behavior assessment unit at MCI-Norfolk Monday. Emil Encarnacion died a short time later at a local hospital.

The 10,000-square-foot William and Charlotte Bloomberg Public Science Common was supported by a $155 million gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies. It can transform into an immersive environment with video projections and movable LED walls.

The city's school district is in the market for bus-mounted cameras to catch stop-sign runners, and asked for bids from companies that do this sort of work. The bid said the district will start with 25 buses to gather data before rolling out more cams.

City leaders announced Friday that the intersection of Tremont and Parker Streets will see a “number of street upgrades,” including a bike lane that will be separated from traffic by parked cars. The city will also paint new white lines at nearby intersections.

Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program, has died. Her work helped make humanity’s first journeys to the moon possible.

I hated poker for most of my life, writes Andrea Javor. The game felt exclusionary and deceptive, the risk not worth the reward. She held tight to an anti-gambling “personal brand” for years, through love and loss. Then she met Jason, an underwriter who, in his spare time, liked to play Texas Hold ’em.

"Should I be joking at a time like this?" That's the question then 33-year-old Brooke Eby asked herself when she uploaded her first piece of TikTok comedy in 2022, about being diagnosed with a terminal illness. Brooke built an audience of hundreds of thousands of people who...

The 40-year-old recording studio in Cambridge pushed its computers to the side to make old-school reel-to-reel recording accessible to musicians in a digital age.

Gov. Maura Healey repeatedly tied Republican challenger Mike Minogue to Trump and argued that the president's tariffs, war and program cuts are making life more expensive here. Minogue argued that Healey has had four years, a Democratic Legislature and record-high budgets to address high costs — and has fallen short.

Since 2017, the number of CEOs in their late 60s has doubled for Fortune 500 companies. What happens when our country’s most powerful business leaders don’t retire?

Massachusetts's top public safety official said automated license plate recognition technology may need a "PR makeover" and told lawmakers it would "be a shame" to lose the investigative tool due to privacy concerns.