A breakthrough program developed at the Boston VA medical center is helping heal the psychological and physical wounds of war. It tailors treatments to veterans struggling to adjust to civilian life by treating all the health issues at the same time instead of individually. Like so many of America’s veterans, John Spagna returned from war a fractured and fragmented...

The images of the mangled white car on Celeste Edmundson’s television didn’t register with her initially. She was watching a news report about a car that had been hit by an MBTA Commuter Rail train, and immediately thought of her sister. “I sent her a text saying, ‘I hope you weren’t on that train,’” Edmundson recalled. Time passed, but...

More than half of Boston Public Schools’ English Learners Task Force have resigned in protest over a plan to place students who are learning to speak English into general education classrooms where English is the primary language, they said Tuesday. Those students will still receive English as a Second Language, or ESL, services but will not have access to instruction…

NBC10 Boston’s Cory Smith, Sue O’Connell and Matt Prichard bring coverage and analysis of politics and government from Beacon Hill to Capitol Hill every Sunday on @Issue — but there’s always more to talk about. “Taking@Issue” offers a glimpse of the conversations that happen behind the scenes, bringing you insight on the issues that affect Boston and Massachusetts, and...

For many top graduates of the Boston Public Schools, the journey to college and beyond is filled with obstacles that often derail their dreams. When the Boston Globe tracked down BPS valedictorians from the classes of 2005 to 2007, they found about a quarter failed to get a bachelor’s degree. None went on to medical school, even though nearly one…

Officials flagged two dams as being severely damaged by the flash flooding in Leominster on Monday. According to the Mass Office of Dam Safety, the Barrett Park Pond Dam was last inspected on November 18, 202. Federal data shows it was in poor condition when it was inspected in 2017.   The Fall Brook Reservoir Dam was last inspected on November…

Business is booming in the Bay State. But while the number of corporate headquarters is growing so there’s plenty of places to work, finding a place to live is another story. For many people in Massachusetts, the dream of owning a home is simply out of reach. You often hear about limited inventory and high demand, but the lack...

Reports of anti-Jewish incidents are at an all-time high since the Anti-Defamation League began keeping track — with almost 3,700 reported across the U.S. in 2022. Concern is also on the rise. An American Jewish Committee survey found that nine out of 10 American Jews believe antisemitism is a problem right here in our own country. “Roughly 40% of American…

Neo-Nazis are active in New England, holding public demonstrations and targeting our Jewish, Black and LGBTQ+ communities. They’ve stormed Harvard Square, threatening pedestrians and passersby, hung antisemitic messages off a Saugus highway overpass, and harassed people attending a drag queen story hour in New Hampshire. Drag performer Juicy Garland organized last month’s event at the Teatotaller cafe in Concord,...

Ronald Geddes has lived in this South End apartment in Boston for more than a year and a half. “So I got my air fryer here, I got my microwave here, my coffeemaker. And I got plenty of cabinet space” he says showing us around. If you look out the window, you can see where he used to live. “I…