Flock cameras and other license plate readers are expanding rapidly across the United States and Massachusetts. This is how ...

Yes, those parking lots sat on filled-in mud flats just barely above sea level. Even in the 1980s, there were worries about storms and floods and melting ice caps, but the effects seemed far in the ...

Content warning: This story includes descriptions of the sexual abuse of children. T here used to be a garage behind the house on the corner, but it’s long gone. Today, the cement path that led to it ...

E mmanuel Vargas stepped out of his ground-floor Hyde Park apartment and into the morning darkness. He checked the time on his phone: 6:19. He was running behind. He pulled his hood over his head as a ...

VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. — It felt like the beginning of a beautiful friendship. When Dr. Ralph de la Torre, a brash and brilliant son of Cuban immigrants, jetted into the Birmingham airport in 2015, he ...

A lexa Arena, a 35-year-old college-educated professional, moved in with her parents to save on rent. Though she works full time, the classic trappings of a middle-class life — the kind she had ...

Editor’s note: The following story contains discussions of online child sexual abuse material. If you or someone you know is the victim of digital abuse, the National Center for Missing & Exploited ...

This story was reported by Mark Arsenault, Matt Rocheleau, and Spotlight editor Patricia Wen. It was written by Arsenault. August 14, 2021 The five-member Department of Correction tactical team strode ...

D r. Young Ho Oh’s patient was headed for disaster. The woman bled heavily throughout her surgery and lost even more blood afterwards. Within hours, an intensive care nurse noticed she had no feeling ...

Imagine a fresh start — a chance for Boston to build a new urban neighborhood of the future, untouched by the bigotry of the past. Start with a swath of nearly 1,000 acres, where rotting railroad ...

TULSA, Okla. — On May 31, 2020, six days after the murder of George Floyd, a welding inspector named Thomas Ryan Knight went to his first protest, a Black Lives Matter demonstration. It was hot but ...