The public transportation system in metropolitan Boston needs to step up efforts to improve safety along its network of subways, buses and commuter rail trains. That’s the finding of a panel of transit experts hired in June by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s fiscal and management control board to review safety on the system after a series of subway...

Questions about the British government’s failure to release a report on Russia’s interference in the country’s politics continued to dog Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday as critics said leaks from the document raised concerns about the security of next month’s election. The report from Parliament’s intelligence committee concludes that Russian interference may have affected the 2016 referendum on Britain’s...

In the largest honor roll Cars.com has given vehicles for easy car seat installation, a whopping 13 cars made the list for making parents’ lives a little easier.

A violent night in Boston resulted in at least three people hospitalized following two shootings overnight. Police responded to a double shooting early Tuesday in Dorchester, according to authorities.

An independent report on Rhode Island’s child welfare agency has found serious shortcomings. The Providence Journal reports that the Public Consulting Group Inc. report found that the Department of Children, Youth and Families failed to meet the target outcomes in 12 of 20 performance areas. The report covers the second half of 2018.

Rhode Island’s education commissioner says the state of the Providence public school system is even worse than a scathing report suggested. WPRI-TV reports Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green discussed her impressions of the system at the eighth and final forum about the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy report. She says the big takeaway is, “things are actually worse than the report...

As universities make last ditch efforts to woo new students ahead of the May 1 National College Decision Day — when students will make their final college decision — a handful of public universities ranked lowest in a report on resources for black students are still struggling to support some of their currently enrolled students.

In a story published Sunday by the Los Angeles Times, Avenatti is accused of hiding a check for $2.5 million from Alexis Gardner – who he represented in a settlement case with Whiteside.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker reportedly thinks rent control would negatively affect the Bay State rather than help it. The Boston Globe reports the Republican governor expressed his belief reporters at an event in the Back Bay. Rent control would “stifle the production of new housing,” Baker reportedly said. “That’s exactly the wrong direction we should go.”

Those who have thought to themselves that Boston has the worst traffic in the country are officially right. Inrix, a transportation data company, crowned Boston as the U.S. city that had the worst gridlock during 2018. The Hub’s newest winning title isn’t exactly the kind of bragging rights Bostonians hope for, but it does offer insight on traffic in the...

Officials at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport in New Hampshire have reported another decline in passengers for the 13th year. The airport says there were 123,000 fewer passengers in 2018 compared to 2017, a 6.2 percent decrease.

A study by outside consultants has found that a beleaguered Massachusetts steamship agency is cheap and plagued by in-fighting. The Seattle-based firm HMS Consulting and Technical’s 140-page report released Monday cites “penny-pinching” at the authority that provides ferry service between Cape Cod and its islands.

President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee is under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in Manhattan for pay to play and misspending some of the $107 million it raised from donations, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The paper, citing people familiar with the investigation, said the probe was launched by the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan, NBC News reported. The...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to require strict limits on the sale of most flavored e-cigarettes, including age verification controls for online sales, in an effort to curtail their use among children and teenagers. FDA officials told The Wall Street Journal on Thursday the actions are expected to be announced as early as next week. The move is...

A 52-year-old male from Malden, Massachusetts, is being charged after he allegedly fired multiple rounds of gunshots in a wooded area of Stoneham, Massachusetts, Wednesday, causing two nearby schools to enter into a shelter-in-place. Stoneham Police are charging the man, whose name was not released, with discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a dwelling, improper storage of a firearm,...

Target practice in a wooded area of Stoneham, Massachusetts, sparked a shelter-in-place at two schools Wednesday afternoon. Massachusetts State Police assisted local police after authorities received several 911 calls for a report of gunshots.

Massachusetts State Police assisted local police with a report of a single gunshot heard near Stoneham High School on Wednesday afternoon.

It appears that the New Jersey Senate race between incumbent Sen. Bob Menendez and his opponent Bob Hugin is a toss up, according to a recent The Cook Political Report analysis.

A Roman Catholic church in Boston had to be evacuated Friday morning after several children reported feeling ill and three were taken to a hospital. Boston fire officials responded to Holy Name church in the city’s West Roxbury neighborhood just before 11 a.m. because the children complained of feeling light-headed and faint.

Students had to be evacuated from the parochial school at the Church of the Holy Name in Boston’s West Roxbury neighborhood on Friday morning after several of them reported not feeling well.