A decommissioned pipe organ has been given a second life by Mount Auburn Cemetery artist-in-residence Eden Rayz. She premieres a new work in Bigelow Chapel on Saturday.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/17/eden-rayz-pipe-organ-mount-auburn-cemetery
May 18 is Haitian Flag Day. To mark the occasion, WBUR spoke with Boston City Council President Ruthzee Louijeune — the city's first Haitian-American elected official — for a quick cultural e...
The Rev. Brandon Thomas Crowley had always loved the Black Church, and wanted to become a pastor even as he realized he was gay. After six years of working as a pastor at his church in Newton, he...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/17/queer-black-clergy-newton-myrtle-baptist-church
Boston's 2024 Open Newbury series will run 10 consecutive Sundays this summer, June 30 to Sept. 1, with two bonus days in December to encourage holiday shopping in Back Bay.
Dr. George Kondylis, chief medical officer at Lawrence General Hospital, joins WBUR’s Morning Edition to discuss the how other hospitals are feeling the effects of Steward Health Care's financi...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/17/steward-health-care-massachusetts-outside-impacts
Twenty years ago, the first LGBTQ couples were married in Massachusetts. The state was the first in the country to legalize same-sex marriage.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/17/massachusetts-same-sex-lgbtq-gay-marriage
The Republican-led New Hampshire Senate voted along party lines Thursday in favor of a bill would ban transgender athletes in grades 5-12 from teams that align with their gender identity. The leg...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/17/new-hampshire-trans-sports-ban-senate
In emotional testimony before the commission investigating the tragedy, family members of Lewiston shooter Robert Card called on law enforcement, the media, the Army and others to do better in th...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/17/lewiston-shooting-robert-carr-family-testimony
This Friday marks the 20th anniversary of Massachusetts' legalization of same-sex unions, thanks to the Supreme Judicial Court ruling in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health. Here are some mo...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/17/anniversary-marriage-equality-massachusetts-lgbtq
On Thursday, Extinction Rebellion Rome took up their Boston allies' outcry, according to the group's Facebook page. At least two protestors staked out Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City holdi...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/16/extinction-rebellion-maura-healey-vatican
The alternative rock group Guster releases their latest studio album Friday, May 17. Titled “Ooh La La,” it’s the band’s ninth album in 30 years. Their debut album “Parachute” came ...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/16/guster-new-release-ooh-la-la
New comments from Massachusetts House Speaker Ron Mariano cast increased doubt on a real estate transfer fee proposal the top Democrat suggested he was open to earlier this spring. The controvers...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/16/mariano-real-estate-transfer-tax-housing-bill
A medical examiner says a Massachusetts teen who participated in a spicy tortilla chip challenge died from ingesting a substance “with a high capsaicin concentration,” according to autopsy re...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/16/one-chip-challenge-death-massachusetts
A decade of debate in Ipswich comes to a head May 21, when the town votes on whether to remove Ipswich Mills Dam. On one side, removal-advocates hope to restore rare wetlands and provide a cushio...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/16/ipswich-mills-dam-removal-vote-environmental-protection-history
President Joe Biden overturned a Federal Emergency Management Agency denial of a major disaster declaration for the strong storms that flooded Leominster, North Attleborough and other parts of Ma...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/16/biden-fema-dister-aid-leominster-floods
University of Massachusetts Amherst Chancellor Javier Reyes addressed faculty, administrators, staff and students Tuesday, calling for "reasoned debate" and "difficult conversations" a week after...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/16/umass-protest-arrests-force
For the first time in four years, Massachusetts saw a decline in overdose deaths in 2023, according to the CDC. State health officials credit the widespread distribution of naloxone and fentanyl...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/16/massachusetts-overdose-deaths-2023-cdc-decrease-newsletter
The judge has refused to discard a $38 million verdict in the landmark trial about physical and sexual abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center. A jury earlier this month sided with Davi...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/16/sununu-youth-center-abuse-case-verdict-discard-denied
Jayson Tatum had 25 points and 10 rebounds, and the Boston Celtics beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 113-98 on to advance to the Eastern Conference finals for the third straight season.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/16/celtics-cavaliers-eastern-conference-semifinals
Plus, a historical walking tour in Jamaica Plain and a screening of the film “Sella. A Life.”
From old videos to newspaper clips, Ebony Gill shines a light on communities often overlooked in the city through her Instagram account.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/16/instagram-boston-urban-archive-massachusetts-hip-hop-history
State health officials on Wednesday sought to assure health care leaders that they are working to preserve care at Steward Health Care's hospitals, despite the company's bankruptcy. But some hosp...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/15/massachusetts-health-care-steward-care-concerns
With sky-high rents in Boston and across the region, advocates are pressing for relief.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/15/hundreds-rally-boston-common-rent-control-wages
Ericka Guerrero and her son Leudi have been in the state shelter system since he was born more than 16 months ago. They've faced many hurdles and delays in getting out of shelter, including obtai...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/15/massachusetts-family-shelter-time-limit
Critics say history will not look well upon hundreds of pro-Palestinian students being arrested for peaceful protests.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/15/massachusetts-boston-college-protests-gaza-politics-free-speech
Attorneys say they have have reached a "mutually agreeable settlement" in a sexual harassment lawsuit against former city health chief Felix Arroyo and the city of Boston, days after the start of...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/15/boston-settlement-felix-arroyo-sexual-harassment-lawsuit
Boston's Museum of Science is planning to replace its windowless, brick-walled Cahners Theater with a bright, 10,000-square-foot event space, with sweeping views of the Charles River. Dubbed the ...
Clark, the NCAA’s all-time leading scorer, started her pro career in Connecticut as the Indiana Fever took on the Connecticut Sun in Uncasville. The Fever took on the Sun at a sold-out Mohegan ...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/15/caitlin-clark-wnba-debut-connecticut-sun
At a Vatican climate conference, Gov. Maura Healey announced that Massachusetts is partnering with a social impact investing firm to launch a climate technology workforce training fund. The Massa...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/15/healey-vatican-climate-conference-technology
Susanna Tapani scored her second overtime winner of the series to help Boston rally past Montreal 3-2 and advance to the Professional Women’s Hockey League championship series. Boston, which sw...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/15/boston-pwhl-pwhl-finals-walter-cup
The final pro-Palestinian encampment in the greater Boston area disbanded Tuesday. Here's a look at how colleges across Massachusetts handled the protest movement.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/15/massachusetts-colleges-protest-encampments-gaza-divestment
Nearing 80, the singer-songwriter is not afraid to have some fun with death on his new album. “It's one of these things that starts as theoretical and then becomes ever more real," Smither says...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/15/blues-chris-smither-all-about-the-bones
A Massachusetts Air National Guard member who pleaded guilty in March to federal crimes for leaking highly classified military documents appeared Tuesday before a military hearing officer who wil...
After delving deeply into the scandal over bodies that authorities say were stolen from the morgue at Harvard University's medical school, WBUR reporter Ally Jarmanning explains how institutions ...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/14/harvard-morgue-body-donation-tips
Student protestors voluntarily ended their encampment Tuesday morning. Harvard was the last remaining encampment in the Boston area, after a string of others have been cleared out by police, resu...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/14/harvard-encampment-clearout-police-gaza
Cars are required to stop while children are boarding and departing school buses. And yet, data released by Peabody Public Schools shows an alarming number of motorists illegally drove past stopp...
Maine’s government will spend tens of millions of dollars to rebuild the state’s working waterfront communities following back-to-back storms that hammered the Northeast in January. The storm...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/14/maine-winter-flooding-rebuilding
U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island Zachary Cunha said Monday that Rhode Island violated the civil rights of hundreds of children with mental health or developmental disabilities by ro...
Three men charged in the 2018 prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger have reached plea deals with prosecutors. The plea deals for Fotios “Freddy” Geas, Paul J. ...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/14/whitey-bulger-prison-beating-plea-deals
Uber and Lyft defended their business model in court on Monday, pitching themselves as technology companies that facilitate easier transportation, not outright transportation providers. State p...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/13/massachusetts-rideshare-court-case-employees-contractors
The Boston NPR affiliate said Monday that Shenoy will leave the show this summer, nearly three years after she succeeded longtime host Bob Oakes.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/13/wbur-host-morning-edition-rupa-shenoy
The Bay State Correctional Center will help house families on the waitlist for state shelter. It was decommissioned in 2015 and remains in good condition, officials said. The state prison populat...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/13/massachusetts-homeless-families-shelter-norfolk
Douglas Smith lives in Sharon, Vt., just across the border from New Hampshire. Since October, the 83-year-old has also carved out time for weekly vigils around the Upper Valley for the civilians ...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/13/dartmouth-gaza-protest-war-divestment
Artificial intelligence voice-cloning technology carries so many risks of harmful impersonation that major technology companies are wary of letting people use it. But a team of Rhode Island docto...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/13/openai-rhode-island-voice-cloning-technology
A new initiative from the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources will map out all the dairy farms and ice cream shops across the state where people can find delicious, locally produce...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/13/ice-cream-trail-boston-massachusetts-dairy-farms-newsletter
Ross Martin, Boston College law professor who teaches bankruptcy law, joins WBUR's Weekend Edition to break down what the bankruptcy process looks like for Steward Health Care.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/13/steward-health-care-bankruptcy-law-process
High-powered attorneys for Massachusetts, Uber and Lyft will argue over whether rideshare drivers can be classified as independent contractors in a trial set to begin Monday. The question has imp...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/13/uber-lyft-trial-independent-contractors-employees
A Michigan judge has sentenced the former executive of a Massachusetts specialty pharmacy to at least 10 years in prison for the deaths of 11 people in 2012. Barry Cadden’s sentence for involun...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/13/meningitis-outbreak-2012-sentencing-michigan
Mass Save offers free energy assessments and helps homeowners access rebates and incentives to improve their energy efficiency and lower their bills. But historically the program hasn't helped as...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/13/massachusetts-mass-save-lowell
Ana Sortun, the award-winning chef and proprietor of Oleana, Sarma and Sofra Bakery, loves parsnips. But WBUR's Cloe Axelson has never been a fan of the spring root vegetable — until a recent r...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/12/parsnips-ana-sortun-oleana-sofra-siena-farms-boston-home