Waymo, the California-based self-driving taxi company, deployed a small fleet of human-driven cars onto the roads of Greater ...

Self-driving taxi company Waymo is beginning to map Boston's streets. Scott Kirsner, a columnist with WBUR's editorial partner MassLive, says there's a long road ahead to make the vehicles work here.

Federal authorities have said right whales need to have at least 50 calves per season to start recovering. But scientists ...

Emily's family is preparing to move to Massachusetts, or Thailand, if New Hampshire lawmakers make it a felony to provide the puberty suppression drug the 8-year-old takes.

Aside from creating music, sidebody also runs a printing press and develops their own zines. Schnee and Warnke compiled ...

Before Thoreau's "life in the woods," there was Brister Freeman, a formerly enslaved man who won his freedom serving in the ...

I've watched every Celtics game this season, writes WBUR senior producer. I don’t walk away from my friends when things get ...

Stull was an artist, mentor, teacher and cultural legend in Boston and beyond. His work as a leading Black artist in comic ...

The state will close its remaining motel and hotel shelters this summer as Gov. Maura Healey announced Monday and lawmakers ...

The Healey administration is proposing a strategy to protect the Massachusetts coastline from rising seas and intensifying ...

A jury has found a former Rhode Island high school basketball coach guilty of battery, but not guilty of second-degree child ...

A Roman Catholic priest from Massachusetts will return to public ministry after charges that he sexually assaulted a child more than two decades ago were dropped.