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When rain hits the asphalt, surface chemicals and pollutants rush straight to the nearest body of water. But a state grant is funding an effort to reduce that contamination in six municipalities across the metro Boston area.

Keith Stokes of Newport, Rhode Island, head of Rhode Island’s diversity office, has been named the state’s second historian laureate.

Chef Nathalie Lecorps grew up in the kitchen of her parents’ Miami restaurant pressing plantains and smelling the savory Haitian spice mixes frying with each dish. Now she’s spreading her love of Haitian cuisine to Boston with the opening of her first brick-and-mortar restaurant Gourmet Kreyol in Mattapan.

According to the Boston Public Health Commission, opioid overdose deaths dropped by 38% in 2024 across the city compared to the year before, according to a new data released May 29. 

As colleges and universities across the Boston area celebrated the completion of degrees for their students, a cohort of local organizations celebrated a different kind of graduation — all in the name of climate justice.

A federal judge issued an emergency order Sunday blocking federal immigration authorities from transferring an 18-year-old Milford High School student of Brazilian nationality out of Massachusetts for at least 72 hours, court records show.

On May 21, Selwyn Jones appeared at a Massachusetts State House press conference and rally to mark the fifth anniversary of the May 25, 2020 murder of his nephew, George Floyd. He hasn’t stopped fighting for justice since that dark day.

The whirring sounds of a metal 3D printer fill a small factory floor. Just blocks away are the boarded-up brick mill buildings in an old industrial neighborhood of Worcester, once the home of some of the country’s leading manufacturers.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) recently appointed Josué González as its vice president of Education and External Engagement.

Boston can boast of another achievement as it has made its historic arrival into the new Michelin Guide Northeast Cities edition.

Activists from Greater Boston-area cities and towns marched on the State House Tuesday, May 20 as part of a national demonstration against the Trump administration’s planned cuts to federal housing programs.

New partnerships between the city of Boston and three community-based organizations aim to improve the translations of municipal documents.