The one-year pilot program, meant to usher Boston into a new cultural era and pump up the economy, is about to wrap up.

Officials don’t need to have a search warrant in order to use a database that tracks the movement of millions of vehicles.

A photo essay captures life in two tiny island towns.

With the ambitious wind project seemingly dead, take a look back at what went wrong.

Every February for almost two decades, Al Hartz has been driving the moving van that hauls the club’s equipment from Fenway Park to Fort Myers, Florida.

With store-bought pizza dough, it’s an easy and filling snack for Super Bowl celebrations.

Glenn Johnson is a weaver and painter who has been making and selling artwork since he was 6 years old. A 40-year member of the American Craft Council, he has owned Handworks Gallery of American Crafts in Acton since 1995.

A new store specializing in lingerie, bongs, and “intimate products” has opened in Weymouth next to a Friendly’s restaurant – despite efforts by town officials to keep the enterprise off such a conspicuous site.

The true threat of terror is that grotesque provocations will lure us into self-defeating choices.

How can an entire planet, with its multifarious systems, be said to have a temperature, or even an average temperature?

A new work in the history of science explains a pivotal moment that changed the way we think about sight.

Live-action and animated shorts that are probably better than most of the features that will win on Oscar night 2015.

“The Devil Wins” concerns itself only with deception in the Bible, and how it was interpreted by theorists through the Middle Ages to the dawn of modernity.

Everything on TV Sunday seems to revolve around Super Bowl XLIX.

Governor Baker did not violate pay-to-play laws with a controversial donation, according an audit by the N.J. treasurer’s office.

When you find yourself in the position of undoing the very reform you once insisted was vital, you will grasp at any straw you can.

Designer sunglasses given by Brian Joyce to his colleagues may violate ethics rules for the cut-rate price that he paid for them.

A judge denied the deal in a devastating blow to Partners HealthCare, and to former attorney general Martha Coakley.

In opening statements, prosecutors laid out the evidence that they say proves Hernandez’s role in the murder of Odin Lloyd.

Suzan-Lori Parks’s “Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)” examines what it means to be free, and what it means to be true.

The major overhaul places the school among the leaders of colleges targeting binge drinking, sexual assaults, and other problems.