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State high court supports controversial housing law, but says details must be re-written

The Supreme Judicial Court ruling in the Milton lawsuit is a win for Healey and Campbell, but could slow implementation of the state’s ambitious housing law.
Read the complete ruling on state lawsuit against Milton over housing law

What to know about the triple-murder suicide in West Greenwich, R.I.

A man shot and killed his pregnant wife and their two children before he killed himself, according to authorities.

In West Greenwich, R.I., a wellness check leads to a gruesome discovery

Heat pumps are designed to operate when it’s still cold out. Really cold out.

Heat pumps are considered crucial to the region’s response to climate change. But when temperatures plummet, are they up for the job?

Here’s what the models are saying about our next possible major snowstorm

Justice Department says it plans to release only part of special counsel's Trump report for now

The Justice Department said it will keep under wraps for now the rest of the record focused on the president-elect’s hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
ANALYSIS | JAMES PINDELL

What’s the big deal with Greenland, and why isn’t Trump ruling out a military invasion?

Greenland has been eyed by American foreign policy analysis for decades, but Trump is only the second president to really explore it.
Could Trump’s return derail the US offshore wind boom?

Prosecutors in Karen Read case ‘expect to’ move to keep two crash reconstruction experts for defense off the stand

Prosecutors in the Karen Read case will seek an order barring two experts who told jurors that her boyfriend’s injuries weren’t consistent with being hit by a vehicle from testifying at the retrial this spring, legal filings show.

Brian Walshe, accused of killing, dismembering wife in Cohasset, due in court on Wednesday

Man arrested after opening door on JetBlue flight preparing for take off at Logan Airport

Massachusetts a top state for departures, two new moving reports show

Los Angeles wildfires burn out of control as thousands flee for safety and homes are destroyed

In the frantic haste to get to safety from the Palisades Fire, roadways became impassable when scores of people abandoned their vehicles and fled on foot, some toting suitcases.
What to know about wildfires raining embers onto the Los Angeles area

See photos and videos of flames, smoke, and residents fleeing the Southern California wildfires

Strong winds have sent wildfires ripping through the mountains and foothills around Los Angeles.

How Globe writers voted on the 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot
Only two players were unanimous selections by our six voters — Ichiro Suzuki and CC Sabathia. Where does Dustin Pedroia land in his first year on the ballot?

Share your thoughts: What do you think of the Globe’s Hall of Fame ballots?

‘People need a second chance’: Amid nationwide truck driver shortage, a Mass. recruitment effort to train people behind bars
Emerge Career trains incarcerated students to get commercial learner’s permits, earn CDLs upon release, and find jobs with a starting pay averaging $75,000 a year.

Karl’s Sausage Kitchen in Peabody will close later this month

The North Shore icon opened in 1958 and will close on Jan. 18. It has long been a destination for European meats, hard-to-find Scandinavian cheeses and provisions, and Christmas cookies.
10 new restaurants to try in the new year

Take a look at the first skyscraper proposed in downtown Boston since the pandemic

Newton-based The RMR Group has proposed a 447-foot hotel and residential tower at the corner of Causeway and North Washington streets.

At 57, Pamela Anderson says she put her ‘entire life experience’ into ‘The Last Showgirl’
Plus: The former "Baywatch" star on her iconic red swimsuit that’s now heading to London’s Design Museum.

Movie review: Pamela Anderson quietly shimmers in ‘The Last Showgirl’
ben volin | on football

With the Patriots zooming through their coaching process, all signs point to Mike Vrabel

Robert Kraft has already satisfied the Rooney Rule by interviewing Pep Hamilton and Byron Leftwich in person, meaning the Patriots are the first of the six teams with a head-coaching vacancy who can make a hire.
PERSPECTIVE

If you’re not part of the conversation at work, you’re not on the path to success

Employee turnover is costly. Leaders who keep employees happy follow these practices.
LOVE LETTERS

My 79-year-old boyfriend stopped sleeping at my house

Our relationship doesn’t feel like a romance anymore.
Opinion
IDEAS | THOMAS LEE

A trip to urgent care almost destroyed me

I had bronchitis. Harried practitioners in our fractured health care system made things much, much worse.
JEFF JACOBY

When truths collide

RENÉE GRAHAM

Who radicalized Matthew Livelsberger?

SCOT LEHIGH

The certification of Donald Trump’s victory offers a moment for civic reflection

EDITORIAL

School closures are hard. But Wu and Skipper’s plan will make BPS a better district.

More recent News

Opioid overdose deaths dropped in two biggest N.H. cities, though positive trend ‘could quickly change’

The mayors of Manchester and Nashua celebrated the good news, as preliminary data suggest opioid overdose deaths declined in 2024 statewide.

The woman in the 911 call begged for Boston police to hurry up. They entered the house and saw a man with a gun.

A man allegedly held three people hostage in a house in Hyde Park after breaking. The three were released unharmed, and the man was arrested.

Hudson, N.H., man charged with sexually assaulting girl, 11 in Nashua park, police say

A 22-year-old Hudson man is due in court Wednesday to face charges that he repeatedly sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl in Mine Falls Park, Nashua’s premier greenspace, last September, police said.

THE BIG DAY
When someone who plans weddings weds
A professional wedding planner and her fiancé took a chance and booked an under construction venue in Derry, N.H., due to open just weeks before their wedding.

Bedsores, a noose made by patient: Nurses union requests state monitors at Tenet hospitals, citing safety lapses
Tenet Healthcare called the union’s claims "unfounded attacks" and "publicity stunts."

Boston traffic ranked fourth worst in the US, study says. But, some small victories.
The average motorist traversing Boston spent 79 hours stuck in traffic in 2024, according to an annual study from INRIX, a transportation analytics company.

Recommended reads

‘An amazing, talented, strong life’: Boston arts community remembers Kyre Ambrose, killed in Brockton stabbing

Kyre Ambrose was an example of the "transformational power of the arts,” Boston Arts Academy wrote in a statement on social media.

What do celery, dark chocolate, and parsley have in common? Maybe clues to a longer life.
Americans are living longer but with more years burdened by chronic disease. Researchers say molecules in certain foods may help us live healthier, longer.

THE FINE PRINT
He thought his physical therapy would cost $25 per session. Then came the bill for $4,515.
It turns out the facility where a Newton college student was treated for an ankle injury is an outpatient department of Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, which charges "hospital visit" rates.

Globe Magazine
How a tiny ski area in Vermont is beating the odds to stay open
It hasn’t buckled to the unpredictable ravages of climate change or the punishing economics of ski area operation — far from it.

Culture & Lifestyle

Globe readers told us their ‘banished words’ of 2025 that belong in the ‘linguistic wastebasket.’

‘The Room Next Door’: In Almodóvar’s latest, one of cinema’s great talkers is joined by one of its best listeners

Cutting back on alcohol? Here are 12 spectacular spots for mocktails all year long.

Boston contestant on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ hits runway in Dunkin’-inspired dress

Special Projects

Broken Promises, Unfulfilled Hope

The Boston Globe explores the legacy of Boston’s busing era.

A Globe Spotlight Team report on Steward Health Care

A Boston Globe Spotlight Team review found the Steward Health Care hospital system plagued by staggering neglect at the hands of executives.

The Boston Globe’s Best of the Best

Our ultimate guide to more than 200 winners for Boston's best food, drinks, and fun things to do.

Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Luis E. Seija | STAT

Surgeon general is right: America has a drinking problem

IDEAS | DAVID DANIEL

I didn’t get to see Bob Dylan play in Newport. It was still electric.

IDEAS | DAVID SCHARFENBERG

How the Democrats come back

Leslie Epstein

From hope to despair: A writer’s lament for a nation

JEFF JACOBY

A woman died in agony as onlookers pressed ‘Record’

IDEAS | CARINE HAJJAR

Lebanon’s biggest problem is not Israel

Metro

‘We miss them’: Exit of UMass art school leaves void in downtown New Bedford

Students fostered an organic relationship with art and local businesses.

Prosecutors in Karen Read case ‘expect to’ move to keep two crash reconstruction experts for defense off the stand

Prosecutors in the Karen Read case will seek an order barring two experts who told jurors that her boyfriend’s injuries weren’t consistent with being hit by a vehicle from testifying at the retrial this spring, legal filings show.
NH HEALTH

Opioid overdose deaths dropped in two biggest N.H. cities, though positive trend ‘could quickly change’

The mayors of Manchester and Nashua celebrated the good news, as preliminary data suggest opioid overdose deaths declined in 2024 statewide.

Here’s what the models are saying about our next possible major snowstorm

New England will try and dodge a strong weekend storm as an interesting weather pattern gets ready to unfold.

Sports

Patriots

Bill Belichick says he had shared vision with Patriots until ‘the last 4 years’

Appearing on a podcast, Belichick said he and Kraft achieved plenty of success by remaining on that same page, but that cohesiveness slipped away over his final seasons.
ben volin | on football

With the Patriots zooming through their coaching process, all signs point to Mike Vrabel

Robert Kraft has already satisfied the Rooney Rule by interviewing Pep Hamilton and Byron Leftwich in person, meaning the Patriots are the first of the six teams with a head-coaching vacancy who can make a hire.
Gary Washburn | On Basketball

The Celtics’ ‘brutal’ road trip is over, and they went 3-1. What did they learn?

In short: The growth on defense is apparent. As midseason approaches, Boston is finally turning it up a notch.
red sox

Share your thoughts: What do you think of the Globe’s Hall of Fame ballots?

red sox

How Globe writers voted on the 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot

Christopher L. Gasper

Stop crediting the Krafts for making the hard decision to fire Jerod Mayo. It was the easy way out.

Business

‘We miss them’: Exit of UMass art school leaves void in downtown New Bedford

Students fostered an organic relationship with art and local businesses.

Read the full high court ruling on state lawsuit against Milton over housing law

The SJC that Attorney General Andrea Campbell can sue cities and towns to comply with the MBTA Communities Act but that the detailed zoning guidelines that shape the law must be thrown out.

State high court supports controversial housing law, but says details must be re-written

‘People need a second chance’: Amid nationwide truck driver shortage, a Mass. recruitment effort to train people behind bars

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Globe Magazine

How a tiny ski area in Vermont is beating the odds to stay open

Cooking

Potato and cheese tacos and other bold recipes to start the new year

year in review

The top 10 Boston Globe Magazine stories of 2024

Secrets & Lies | Chapter 2

Investigators assumed Sandra Birchmore took her own life. What did they miss?

metro

A wellness check leads to a gruesome discovery: West Greenwich, R.I., family killed in triple-murder suicide

What to know about the triple-murder suicide in West Greenwich, R.I.

Brian Walshe, accused of killing, dismembering wife in Cohasset, due in court on Wednesday

sports

Globe Top 20 girls’ hockey poll: There’s a new No. 1

Girls’ hockey notebook: Hingham’s Caroline Doherty proves the journey to college hockey has many paths

Eastern Mass. girls’ hockey: Globe Players of the Week for Dec. 31 to Jan. 6

business

Take a look at the first skyscraper proposed in downtown Boston since the pandemic

Have you been prescribed Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound, or Mounjaro? We want to hear from you.

In a surprise move, Providence City Hall becomes a makeshift homeless shelter

politics

Justice Department says it plans to release only part of special counsel’s Trump report for now

Jimmy Carter continues to lie in state at Capitol Rotunda ahead of his state funeral

Trump asks the Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush-money case in New York

Nation

Wildfire burns through LA enclave known for its beaches and celebrity allure

See photos and videos of flames, smoke, and residents fleeing the Southern California wildfires

Los Angeles wildfires burn out of control as thousands flee for safety and homes are destroyed

World

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala released from Iran and returning home

Hiker found 2 weeks after he got lost in a remote Australian mountain range

Austrian foreign minister Alexander Schallenberg to serve as the country’s interim leader

opinion

Do the police arrest enough drunk drivers?

Carter’s truths vs. Trump’s lies: What voters value

Spitting out the bitter pill that Jan. 6, 2025, administers

lifestyle

When someone who plans weddings weds

Ready to ‘purge and burn’ 2024 and its Christmas trees? Have we got a community bonfire for you.

Photos: See ‘Wicked’ cast, Zendaya, Mindy Kaling, and more stars hit the Golden Globes red carpet

food & dining

Karl’s Sausage Kitchen in Peabody will close later this month

10 new restaurants to try in the new year

Cutting back on alcohol? Here are 12 spectacular spots for mocktails all year long.

travel

Ready to start exploring? Here’s where to go in 2025.

Can’t always travel? There are close-by places that can bring the world to you.

The Boston Wine & Food fest, California dreaming, and travel gear for pets

Arts

‘We miss them’: Exit of UMass art school leaves void in downtown New Bedford

At the MFA, when Robert Frank captured a captivating Paris

A life of literature, wealth, and concealment: Morgan Library celebrates its first director

Books

Local bestsellers for the week ended Jan. 5

In ‘Going Home,’ baby-sitting turns into something much more

For medievalist novelist Dan Jones, sports biographies are a great escape

Movies

Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivers ‘Hard Truths’ — and 2024’s best performance

At 57, Pamela Anderson says she put her ‘entire life experience’ into ‘The Last Showgirl’

‘The Room Next Door’: In Almodóvar’s latest, one of cinema’s great talkers is joined by one of its best listeners

Television

Screen Actors Guild Awards cancel live nominations announcement due to Los Angeles wildfires

Patti LuPone to join ‘Sex and the City’ sequel, ‘And Just Like That...’

Boston contestant on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ hits runway in Dunkin’-inspired dress

music

Jason Aldean and Brooks & Dunn will co-headline Fenway Park in May

Peter Yarrow of folk-music trio Peter, Paul, and Mary dies at 86

‘The 90s called and they want their lineup back’: This year’s Boston Calling lineup is drawing some criticism

Theater/Dance

What makes life worth living? ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ is making a list.

What to see on Broadway if you’re heading to New York

Ayodele Casel’s ‘Diary of a Tap Dancer’ at the ART writes forgotten women into the art form’s story

Health

Have you been prescribed Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound, or Mounjaro? We want to hear from you.

Norovirus cases in Mass. surged in 2024, outpacing previous years, officials say

What do celery, dark chocolate, and parsley have in common? Maybe clues to a longer life.

Obituaries

Alison Field, who conducted groundbreaking research into eating disorders and obesity, dies at 58

Friedrich St. Florian, architect of World War II Memorial, dies at 91

Peter Yarrow of folk-music trio Peter, Paul, and Mary dies at 86