Olivia Ambrose, the 23-year-old woman who went missing after leaving a downtown Boston bar on Saturday night, was found alive Tuesday, and a suspect has been arrested.  

The discovery of the 23-year-old followed high-profile pleas for help from her family and friends. 

A section of Walford Way, located within the sprawling Bunker Hill Housing Development, was cordoned off with yellow police tape Tuesday afternoon. 

“Puerto Rico has suffered enough,” the Massachusetts senator said. “We will not allow anyone to sabotage your recovery – not even the President of the United States.” 

State law limits payments from cannabis firms to municipalities at 3 percent of a company’s annual revenue. 

The project includes two connected 12-story towers on Cambridge Street, with hundreds of private patient rooms, a heart center, a cancer center, operating rooms, and other clinical areas.  

As the partial government shutdown enters its fifth week, the funding freeze has impeded FBI efforts to crack down on child trafficking, violent crime and terrorism, a new report says. 

Representative Ayanna Pressley received her second committee appointment Tuesday, one week after being named to the House Financial Services Committee. 

The long-debated idea has stalled in Massachusetts even while other states in New England and around the country have adopted bans. 

Governor Charlie Baker is slated Wednesday to unveil his budget plan for fiscal year 2020 and his much-anticipated take on overhauling the state’s 26-year-old school funding formula.  

Mr. Baker’s “Observer” column appeared in The New York Times for 36 years and turned a backwoods-born Virginian into one of America’s most celebrated writers.