Nation

As Alaska warms, fires burn over (and under) more wild land

Faced with the rapid warming of the Arctic from climate change, people living in Alaska’s fire zones are bracing for the likelihood that this year’s blazes are merely a glimpse of even larger megafires to come. Continue reading →

Nation

Hawaii seeks end to strife over astronomy on sacred mountain

Native Hawaiian advocates want to protect a site of great spiritual importance. Astronomers hope they'll be able to renew leases for state land underneath their observatories, due to expire in 11 years, and continue making revolutionary scientific discoveries for decades to come. Continue reading →

Nation

Pickleball, sport of the future injury?

As a flock of middle-aged players migrate from tennis or start fresh with pickleball, the aches are defying the game’s low-impact reputation. Continue reading →

World

As attacks mount in Crimea, Kremlin faces rising domestic pressures

Nearly six months into the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin still refers to its invasion as a “special military operation” while trying to maintain a sense of normalcy at home. Continue reading →

World

UN: US buying big Ukraine grain shipment for hungry regions

The planned shipment, one of several the U.N. agency that fights hunger is pursuing, is more than six times the amount of grain that the first WFP-arranged ship from Ukraine is now carrying toward people in the Horn of Africa at risk of starvation. Continue reading →

World

In India, new trauma as 11 convicted of gang rape and murder walk free

“The trauma of the past 20 years washed over me again,” the victim said in a statement released by her lawyer Wednesday. “I am still numb.” Continue reading →

LETTERS

Boston high school teacher wants city to implement smartphone ban

The last thing students need is for their educators to enable an unhealthy reliance on their phones. Yet district and school leaders are standing by, making minor tweaks to ineffective phone policies that never worked in the first place. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Why Biden was the one in 2020, and why he still is

His legacy will eventually be the calming and compassionate presence he provided in the White House, compared with his predecessor. Continue reading →

LETTERS

Solution to rise in political violence is bipartisanship? Good luck with that.

One would like to think that if a bipartisan group of prominent leaders were to condemn political violence, the chances that violence would persist would be smaller. But the past eighteen months have demonstrated that that is a fiction. Continue reading →

Transportation

Orange Line shutdown begins

Saturday marks the first full day of the Orange Line shutdown, but the bigger test will happen on Monday, the first work day of the shutdown. Continue reading →

YVONNE ABRAHAM

On this year’s primary ballot: a battle that may bring big change to the obscure but drama-prone Governor’s Council

There was a time when Councilor Marilyn Petitto Devaney was but one of many, er, characters on the panel who get the last word on appointments to benches and parole boards, and on pardons and commutations. Continue reading →

Massachusetts

For the YouTube generation of hunters, a new gathering

Huntstock aims to be a home for a younger, suburban hunter, reared by podcasts, not grandpas. Continue reading →

Sports

Youth hockey organizations slow to remove coaches accused of abuse

Robert Barletta is not the only youth hockey figure banned by SafeSport who has continued operating in the state. Continue reading →

dan shaughnessy

A look at Patriots popularity, then and now, and other thoughts

These days, you might have to wait 19 years for a chance to buy season tickets. That wasn't always the case, for sure. Continue reading →

RED SOX 4, ORIOLES 3

Michael Wacha, Christian Arroyo deliver again and Red Sox hold off Orioles

Pitching and shoddy defense were the story the day after Boston and Baltimore combined for 25 runs, with the Red Sox weathering the second thanks to the work of Wacha and Garrett Whitlock. Continue reading →

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IDEAS

The new United States of New England

If America breaks up and if history is any guide, people of our region will seek to lead their own federation. Continue reading →

IDEAS

What we get wrong about teens and screens

Teenagers actually want to talk to you about their tech struggles. But you need new talking points. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Vadim Bakatin, the last chair of the KGB, dies at 84

A liberal Russian politician who in the late 1980s rocketed from Siberian obscurity to President Mikhail Gorbachev’s inner circle, during the final days of the Soviet Union, Vadim Bakatin took control of the KGB with a promise to curtail its size and strength — only to see it reemerge under a new name soon after he stepped down. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Charlene Curtis, coaching trailblazer in ACC, dies at 67

The first Black women’s head basketball coach in the ACC, Charlene Curtis, died Thursday after a battle with cancer, the conference said. Continue reading →

Obituaries

Ann McGuiness, major fund-raiser for women’s health, dies at 65

A behind-the-scenes force in women’s health and reproductive rights, Ann McGuiness raised vast amounts of money for Planned Parenthood and other groups and then was a founder of the Contraceptive Access Initiative, which seeks to make hormonal birth control more available over the counter. Continue reading →

Commentary

Getting to know Nollywood, Nigeria’s version of Hollywood

Nollywood is an entertainment-producing powerhouse gaining a foothold in the United States. But for one Boston film student, the movies her mother watched will always be tied up with memories of home. Continue reading →

MATTHEW GILBERT

When a favorite TV series ends, facing the mourning after

You haven’t lost a beloved family member, or a friend, or a pet. But let’s not pretend we don’t sometimes feel twinges when something that has given us enjoyment and perhaps spoken to us goes away. Continue reading →

Music

Next door to Fenway Park, Boston’s newest concert venue is ready to take the field

With a capacity of 5,000 and featuring unique geometry, MGM Music Hall, operated by the Fenway Sports Group, will host its first concert Aug. 27. Here's a peek at what fans can expect. Continue reading →

TRAVEL

On the St. Lawrence River, it’s whatever floats your boat

Here’s what it’s like to take a cruise in the 1000 Islands, a section of the St. Lawrence straddling the New York-Ontario border, dotted with island outcroppings. Continue reading →

TRAVEL

Visiting Storm King Art Center — the king of all outdoor art parks

Storm King Art Center is 500 acres of meadows, hills, paths — and home to art by some of the world’s most renowned site-specific artists. Continue reading →

Real Estate

From there to here, from here to there, home buyer woes are everywhere.

Longtime Rhode Island home buyers who have watched prices surge may never see the market return to pre-pandemic levels. Continue reading →

Real Estate

Home of the Week: For $845,000, a ship-like contemporary in R.I.

A two-bedroom, two-bath contemporary that puts the "open" in open living area. Continue reading →