Boston MA

BOSTON- This week, Boston City Councilors Ed Flynn and Erin Murphy filed a hearing order to discuss staffing levels in the Boston Police Department (BPD). The longstanding issues of understaffing, overstretched resources, forced overtime, and looming retirements at the Boston Police Department is a public safety and...

Police say the teenager was last seen early Monday morning.

BOSTON (WHDH) - Police responded to an assault in Boston Wednesday morning around 8:15 a.m. Officials say the assault took place near the corner of Huntington Avenue and Gainsborough Street. A victim was injured in the incident and entered a Northeastern building where they received aid, according to a Northeastern...

EAST BRIDGEWATER, MASS. (WHDH) - A dog who went missing after he was kicked into a busy street in Dorchester in March has been returned to his owner safely. On March 19, Neomi Nunez said she was walking her 11-pound dog Biscuit near her mother’s home on Dudley Street when a man she didn’t know came up to her and...

Noelle Lyden starts her Tuesdays at 5:30 a.m., long before the sun rises. She takes a 6 a.m. bus through a quiet campus, down Commonwealth Avenue, and to the Reservoir T stop. From there, she spends nearly an hour on the D line, riding it to the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, where she arrives at Brigham and...

Waves of educators have been calling out for religious reasons, taking sick days, and using their vacation time. There will be no school in Medford this Friday, April 3, due to a district-wide staffing shortage. Superintendent Suzanne Galusi made the announcement after a wave of staff members called out, she...

An internal investigation into a deadly 2023 motor vehicle accident involving suspended Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Scott Quigley has uncovered allegations of a deliberate cover-up orchestrated by a fellow trooper. The report, authored by attorney and retired Judge Thomas Drechsler for Middlesex County District...

Cadenza, the classical music jobs site, has done a 13-year trawl on the orchestra’s facts and figures. Shocking truths? The endowment has grown $118m since 2013 to $618 million. The BSO is by far the wealthiest orchestra in America. In 2020, the musicians were persuaded to take an average...

Bentley University is tearing into its biggest academic building, kicking off an $85 million overhaul of the Adamian Academic Center on its Waltham hilltop. Crews are already on site, and the university is eyeing a fall 2027 reopening. The plan takes old-school lecture halls and turns them into immersive tech labs,...

A review of the Middlesex district attorney’s office following the revelation that a State Police investigator may have been driving drunkenly when he was involved in a fatal crash in December 2023 cleared prosecutors of any wrongdoing related to the late disclosure of evidence about the collision. Thomas Drechsler,...