Mayor Michelle Wu, accompanied by a team of classic holiday characters, lit Christmas trees at 16 stops in two days, highlighting community organizers and green energy initiatives along the way.  As part of a 26-year long Boston tradition, the mayor traveled in a trolley...

Boston is home to an ever-growing network of small businesses, whose consumership often picks up during the holiday season. Three women of color, Imani McFarlane, Zeena Brown and Angela Hofmann, lead a variety of small businesses in the city. In a world often dominated by...

Snowport Holiday Market was packed with eager crowds Dec. 8, bundled head-to-toe in winter gear. Dozens of people bustled through the crowd to secure their place in line for a crepe. Some headed for an alpaca fur shop, while others made their way towards an Irish spirit stand....

Across Boston, there’s one voice echoing throughout public transportation. As it announces each stop, it’s deep, resonant — even comforting, to some  —  and it belongs to Frank Oglesby. Oglesby, long hailed as “the voice of the T,” has done voice-over work for...

In 2021, a small team of Simmons University graduate students began work on the Mary Eliza Project, which involves the digitalization of extensive, difficult-to-work Boston voter registration records from the summer and fall of 1920. The project, a collaborative archive transcription...

For Aleks Hatzigeorgiou, a first-year international business major, Boston’s accepting environment was a dramatic change from his hometown of Augusta, Georgia. There is a small LGBTQ+ community in Augusta, Hatzigergiou said. Pride flags are only displayed on stickers in...

As inflation reaches a 40-year high, expenses for basic survival needs — like food — grow increasingly out of reach for many. Currently, almost one in three adults, or 1.8 million, in Massachusetts struggle with food insecurity. In efforts to provide for homeless, hungry...

A 7.7-acre site across from the Boston Police headquarters in Roxbury is set to become a multi-use complex complete with affordable housing, a museum space, storefronts and facilities for life science research. After receiving unanimous approval from the Roxbury Strategic...

Snap Boogie has a dream: “To do a show where people pay $100 to come watch [him] do [his] thing on the big stage.” Years and years into performing, that dream has not faded.  Snap Boogie, born Cjaiilon Andrade, is a street performer in Boston who specializes in tap, acrobatics...

“It’s a beautiful day for a protest,” remarked a passerby looking over to the street in front of the Boston Public Library, where dozens of both Iranian and non-Iranian supporters gathered Nov. 5 in solidarity with the ongoing protest movement in Iran, sparked by the resounding...

Nov. 8 was Election Day, and with several important matters on the ballot, Massachusetts residents made their way to the polls with issues including abortion, democracy and the economy at the tops of their minds. The News traveled to seven different polling sites, spanning 30...

Election Day was full of firsts for Massachusetts. The state elected its first Black woman as attorney general, first female governor and first all-female executive team, making it the first state to do so. On Tuesday, historically underrepresented communities were able to see...