After a few tantalizing weeks of back and forth weather, when 50 degree days segued straight into snow, it’s finally happened. For the first time since maybe November, Boston had a truly nice weekend. Both …

As of July 2009, the Department of Public Health reports that 320 opiate overdoses in Massachusetts have been reversed by the administration of overdose reversal drug Narcan.  Due to the proven success of the drug in …

Newcomer Dirty Water News is slated to start circulating its “lifestyle and entertainment” paper around Boston this month, and their new site recently went live.
The paper comes from the makers of a similar paper on …

An area mother called 911 this past weekend because her 14-year-old son was playing video games into the middle of the night, refusing to fall asleep.
Police say that the call came in at 2:30 Am …

When Mayor Menino declared a snow emergency this past weekend, I knew that an important task had been set before me. With the city at a standstill—its residents cooped indoors, mountains of canned goods at …

Everyone has had that shitty job, the one you dread trudging off to each day, that job that drags on and on and that you wish could somehow be improved by even the most incremental …

The fatal crash of the Boston Fire Department’s Ladder 26  last winter has recently been under investigation by authorities, and according to a police report obtained by the Globe, it seems the installation of wrong …

By the time Harvard finally opens its state-of-the-art science lab in Allston, it might not be so modern anymore.
The university announced today that it will halt construction of the sprawling science complex once the first …

After enduring a childhood of abuse in Russian orphanages, Nastia Turovinina was saved from a life of poverty and corruption by Marblehead resident Keri Cahill, who adopted her in 2005. As an orphan in her …

Boston celebrated two decidedly American holidays this evening—Christmas and Independence Day—by simultaneously lighting an enormous spruce tree and blasting choreographed fireworks into the night sky.
The display was all part of the city’s 68th annual Christmas …