Members of Homes for All Mass, a coalition of housing groups across the state, plan to file an initiative petition with ...

Boston is included in the Department of Justice's new list of so-called "sanctuary" jurisdictions. The release of the list ...

Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act 35 years ago, but this year they cut Medicaid, and my future is uncertain ...

WBUR's Martha Bebinger lost her nephew, Austen Smith, to a drug overdose last year. In this essay, she describes the pain and questions that linger.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is cutting nearly $500 million in funding for the development of mRNA vaccines that are used to fight COVID-19 and the flu.

The Department of Transportation is raising concerns about airlines using artificial intelligence to set ticket prices based on customers' personal information. Airline ticket prices already fluctuate ...

We get the latest on Haiti's escalating violence days after gangs attacked an orphanage near Port Au Prince on Sunday, kidnapping seven staff members and a 3-year-old child.

Though he died in 1997 at the age of 30, singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley's music continues to resonate. Rolling Stone named his studio album "Grace" one of the 500 greatest albums of all time. A new ...

Battles between herders and farmers over access to land in Nigeria's fertile central region have led to violent clashes and no easy answers.

Groundwater depletion is rapidly accelerating, creating areas of "mega-drying" in regions that heavily depend on groundwater for their drinking supplies.

Some patients who’ve suffered from oral cancers or neurological diseases like ALS are starting to use the technology to regain natural voices that they lost.

U.N. officials say a quarter of the population in Gaza is experiencing "famine-like conditions." Health experts who have studied past famines warn that the fallout can reverberate across generations.