The project, overseen by a UMass Amherst professor, will assess how well bike safety infrastructure is working and assess the ...

Several Massachusetts ballot questions are shaping up to be expensive, competitive contests. Here's a quick breakdown of the ...

Former president Jimmy Carter turns 100 on Tuesday. To celebrate, the humanitarian's Carter Center organized a benefit concert in Atlanta this month that also showcased his lifelong love of music.

Departing Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre is fighting a criminal contempt of Congress charge against him for ...

Prosecutors are charging three prisoners in connection with an apparent attack on corrections officers at Souza-Baranowski Correction Center. Five officers were hospitalized after the incident inside ...

In one of his first jobs,  during his 20s, Walz spent a year teaching in China. Then, over several years, he and his wife brought many students on trips to China.

Most of western North Carolina is still without power, cell service and water after Hurricane Helene ripped through the region last week. Lilly Knoepp, senior regional reporter at Blue Ridge Public ...

As Israel's military eyes a ground invasion, we assess what the country stands to gain or lose by escalating a regional war.

The International Longshoremen's Association is demanding higher wages and says contract talks aren't progressing.

About 45,000 dock workers at ports from Maine to Texas are scheduled to walk off the job on Tuesday for the first time since ...

NPR's Melissa Block has this appreciation of singer, songwriter and actor, Kris Kristofferson, who died this weekend.

The MLB playoffs are almost set. Two more last-minute games on Monday will decide the final two places. For more on the ramifications of those games and what to expect from the games leading up to the ...