“It all comes down to the trash. It's their food. So, look for the trash piles and you'll find the rats,” said Marieke Rosenbaum, with Tufts University’s Cummings School of Veterinary Medic...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/03/28/rats-boston-massachusetts-infestation-trash-prevention
As Brockton High students and staffers cope with media attention surrounding problems with school violence, students reflect on the progress and positive aspects of their daily school lives.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/03/26/brockton-high-school-school-fights-student-perspectives
Cars, circuitry and communications technologies are among South Korea's biggest exports. But it's the country's cultural offerings that are the focus of an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, ...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/03/22/hallyu-korean-wave-museum-of-fine-arts-boston
Luc Schuster, executive director of the Boston Indicators Research Center at the Boston Foundation, argues everyone is making a bigger deal out of this law than it needs to be. He joined WBUR's M...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/03/22/mbta-communities-zoning-overstated-impact-luc-schuster
Shaw was the first Black woman reporter on TV news in Boston, starting in 1969. She worked at WBZ for more than 30 years. She was born in the city and lived in Roxbury her entire life. Shaw die...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/03/21/sarah-ann-shaw-reporter-wbz-died
WBUR's Morning Edition team stopped an iftar dinner held by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Muslim Students Association to talk to students about marking Ramadan while also mourning...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/03/20/iftar-dinner-mit-ramadan-gaza-campus
The historic Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline is a beloved throwback to the classic era of moviegoing. Now, after a decade of fundraising, designing and construction, the art deco movie house...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/03/20/coolidge-corner-theatre-expansion
Popular classes at Harvard and Berklee College of Music use Taylor Swift as a tool to teach songwriting, literature and cultural analysis.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/03/19/taylor-swift-college-classes
From pillow menus to sleep rituals, for National Sleep Awareness Month we pull back the covers on “sleep tourism.”
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/03/18/sleep-vacation-boston-massachusetts
Milton's opposition to a new Massachusetts law to increase housing near mass transit stations has several layers and arguments. But Attorney General Andrea Campbell said the town can't pick and c...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/03/14/massachusetts-housing-law-milton
Even if a state ban doesn't become law this year, education policy experts say the effort could play an important role in challenging a practice that impedes equitable access to selective schools...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/03/14/massachusetts-legacy-admissions-ban
In an emergency, an inhaler can save a life. But the gas it releases contributes to global warming. Each of the most commonly prescribed inhalers has about the same climate warming impact as driv...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/03/14/asthma-inhaler-climate-change-environment
Massachusetts has the third-largest community of Haitian immigrants in the United States. The population has grown over the last couple of years, as there's been a surge of people fleeing Haiti. ...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/03/08/massachusetts-haiti-turmoil
Eversource is building the country's first gas utility-led networked geothermal system in Framingham. Environmentalists hope it can be a model for other gas utilities to wean themselves off of fo...
The task force's chair said the group is still gathering research and does not expect to make its recommendations until 2025.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/03/08/boston-massachusetts-black-reparations-task-force
The Massachusetts House has approved a bill that puts a new cap on how long people can stay in the state's emergency family shelters. Most people would only be eligible for nine months of shelter...
After a 2023 WBUR and ProPublica investigation found that almost 2,300 state-funded apartments were sitting empty, the state promised action within 90 days. But it failed to fix key problems, lea...
As expected, President Joe Biden easily won the Democratic primary in Massachusetts Tuesday. And on the Republican side, former president Donald Trump prevailed decisively against challenger Nikk...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/03/06/super-tuesday-massachusetts-results-anthony-brooks
National NAACP board member Michael Curry is also a Brockton resident whose two sons recently graduated from the school, and has been outspoken about issues there. He joined WBUR's Morning Editio...
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/03/05/michael-curry-brockton-high-school
With the outcome here not in doubt, and the campaigns focusing on "swing-states," voters here are looking for other ways to make their voices heard.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/03/04/massachusetts-progressives-super-tuesday