Largely due to overpayments, Massachusetts registered a 12.5% error rate for SNAP benefits in fiscal year 2025, which could put the state on the hook to cover more of the cost of the federal food and nutrition assistance program.

When a species is facing extinction, it takes an enormous human effort to stave it off.

Many towns have regulations about when a homeowner can cut down their own trees.

Historian Heather Cox Richardson sees a current, unparalleled "attempt to dismantle our democracy."

Professor Hany Farid said deepfakes have become so good that they're evading tools he created to spot them.

These changes could impact repayment plans.

So-called miracle fields are constructed with rubberized turf that accommodates wheelchairs and assistive devices.

Federal agents have been working overtime in the past week to double the recent rate of immigration arrests.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the company “agreed to proactively detect and address security risks associated with the models."

A joint memorial service was held Sunday for three wildland firefighters who died last week along the Utah-Colorado border.

President Trump delivered a speech on Saturday to celebrate the 250th anniversary of America's independence that was openly political and included partisan attacks against Democrats.

The music of Motown Records was formative to a generation of Detroiters.

Balogun received the controversial red card last week in the team’s win over Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In Tehran on Monday, Iranians thronged the funeral procession for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a U.S.-Israeli airstrike in February.

The Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston has raised nearly half of its initial renovation budget and says more than 100 prospective tenants have expressed interest.

Two people were killed and several others wounded in a flurry of night-time shootings in Roxbury and Dorchester during the late hours of Sat., July 4 and early morning of Sunday, July 5.

Ryan's upcoming psychological thriller, "Mother Daughter Sister Stranger." comes out Sept. 1.

Mass. Politics resumes July 13 with WBUR's new senior state politics reporter Gintautas Dumcius spearheading the weekly newsletter.

The Trump administration has cut or significantly scaled back federal food assistance, including to programs that tribes have used to distribute culturally-significant foods produced locally. Some legislators are working to reinstate programs as part of the Farm Bill that would help state and tribal governments purchase local food.

A quirk in Vermont election law — coupled with struggles to recruit Republican candidates — has led H. Brooke Paige to once again run for multiple statewide offices.

The bush has been growing here since the observatory’s founding in 1885, if not longer. For 141 years, without missing a season, observers at Blue Hill have recorded the date when the first berry ripens. Their data provide a unique picture of the effects of a warming climate, and its impact on one of New England’s favorite summer treats.

The MIT Museum will acquire the project archives of I.M. Pei, making it the site of the largest single collection of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect's work. The collection includes tens of thousands of drawings, dozens of models, and over a million pages of manuscripts documenting projects like the Louvre's glass pyramid and the JFK Presidential Library.

An accent doesn’t just tell someone where you are from – but who you are – your cultural background, race, age and class. How the way we talk tells people more than we think.

More than 4,000 nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital are set to strike on July 8. Leaders at the hospital, owned by Mass General Brigham, met with union members Thursday but failed to reach a contract agreement. No additional bargaining sessions are scheduled at this time.

The U.S. Marshal's Office in Massachusetts is marking the nation's 250th birthday by working with local law enforcement to aggressively arrest accused violent criminal offenders.

Former President George Washington called it "an effort of genius."

Revolutionary reenactor Jeremiah Poope took host Robin Young on an 11-stop tour of some of Boston's most iconic revolutionary landmarks

How should we celebrate this imperfect union at a time that feels so divisive?

America is celebrating it's 250th anniversary this year, but its only been about 160 years since the 13th Amendment was passed, abolishing slavery.

Acclaimed artist and activist Ai Weiwei has often encountered censorship and surveillance throughout his career.