A federal judge in Boston has ordered the release of a 14-year-old girl detained by federal agents on Tuesday. The girl was transported through the night to a juvenile facility in New York when agents ...

The Wild Benches of Hope, a public art series of three bronze benches highlighting endangered animals is now on display at ...

Iran's new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, said in televised remarks Thursday that the Strait of Hormuz — the shipping route for a fifth of the world’s oil supply — should remain closed.

From an exploration of how technology can be used for connection to a display of miniature sanctuary cities, WBUR contributor ...

The Senate has passed the largest housing bill in decades — bipartisan legislation designed to improve housing affordability ...

The 98th annual Academy Awards will be held this Sunday, March 15, which is at least a month too late, writes WBUR film critic Sean Burns. "We’ve been talking about last year’s movies for so long ...

A group of teenagers that formed a rock band in the 1960s never released their music until now. Here & Now ’s Peter O’Dowd learns more about how a new album from The Glass Cage came to light more than ...

Meteorological winter — defined as December, January and February — has come to a close. The numbers confirm what New Englanders already knew: the winter of 2025-2026 was one to remember.

Boston's annual parade to mark St. Patricks Day and Evacuation Day is coming again to the streets of Southie. Here's all you need to know about this year's event.

While commuters race through New York's Penn Station, dancers rehearse all down the corridor before they film their performances for social media. Jeff Lunden reports. This segment aired on March 12, ...

The annual H-1B visa lottery registration — where employers apply to secure one of 85,000 available temporary work visas for high-skilled foreign nationals — is underway this month. But some labor ...

Who said the United States’ 250th anniversary was the only birthday in town? 2026 is also the centennial year of a historic rocket launch that changed the way we understand space travel. Goddard had ...