The first mainstage concert of the Boston Early Music Festival was also the North American debut of Mozart’s own violin and viola.

Police are discouraging spectators from wearing backpacks, hauling coolers, or carrying containers that hold more than a liter of liquid.

The Patrick administration didn’t explain its failure to verify applicants’ information until after approving 20 dispensaries for provisional licenses.

A coauthor of two papers that described a controversial technique for creating stem cells has called for the studies to be withdrawn.

When an aggressive cancer took Carolyn Grantham’s ability to eat away, she kept her food blog going, just as her husband has helped keep her going.

New details about the slaying of Mary “Pat” O’Hagan emerged, as two of the three men accused in the killing stood before a judge.

One take-away from this year’s CPAC is that the right is in trouble, at risk of a schism between social conservatives and small-government libertarians.

Police responding to a medical emergency found one of the largest cases of animal hoarding to hit the area in recent memory.

Frustration mounted Monday over what has become one of the most perplexing aviation disasters in history.

Intelligence officials plan to use massive databases to scan the behavior of federal employees who have security clearances.

The Cambridge company’s regulatory filing followed a choppy week in biotech stock trading.

Kostya Kennedy, assistant managing editor of Sports Illustrated wastes no time in getting to the point: Does Rose belong in the Hall of Fame?

Boston has made huge steps in recent years in reforming its relationship with the automobile. Can the suburbs?

Russia said Monday it was preparing diplomatic counterproposals to serve “the interests of all Ukrainians.”

Students and others involved in a massive outdoor party Saturday that turned into a melee “brought shame on our fine university,” the chancellor of UMass Amherst said.

The Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill making big changes in the military justice system to deal with sexual assault.

A New York Times ad with a distinctly Cold War flavor went after 600 academic economists who support a minimum-wage increase.

There is a brightness to “Slow Me Down,” Sara Evans’s seventh album, that makes this a stronger outing then her 2011 set.

Electronic cigarette use is exploding among adolescents, and the latest evidence indicates this is not good.

The scale of Russia’s propaganda effort in the current Ukraine crisis has been breathtaking, even by Soviet standards.