In Maine, Democrat Graham Platner faces longtime Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins in a high-stakes race that could ...

This shift follows the 2024 launch of free community college in Massachusetts and comes amid growing skepticism nationwide ...

Designed as a placeholder for work-in-progress documents, those quasi-Latin words now appear on mugs, tote bags and T-shirts.

Groundbreaking science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote her first 10 novels on a powder blue manual typewriter, now an ...

Hundreds of detainees in at least 33 states aren’t getting necessary medications on time or at all, and infections and ...

Film critic Sean Burns writes there’s a lot going on in this movie: a ton of running and jumping and driving cars through ...

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey joins WBUR's Morning Edition to weigh in on the Democratic Senate primary in the state that ...

Around Massachusetts, communities are planting a wilderness-worth of trees into tiny areas according to the Miyawaki method.

The Massachusetts governor touched on her expectations for the World Cup and her administration's approach to artificial ...

Nearly 200 Massachusetts musicians entered NPR's Tiny Desk Contest this year. Here are four that caught our judges eyes.

Unless Congress passes new laws soon, the Social Security trust fund will not be able to pay out full benefits to all eligible seniors starting in 2032.

Team USA will play their first match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup tournament Friday night against Paraguay in Los Angeles.