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Bold Types | With SparkCharge, Josh Aviv is providing electric vehicle charging on-demand
Aviv is the founder and chief executive of Somerville-based SparkCharge, the world’s first mobile on-demand EV charging network. (Producer & Editor: Anush Elbakyan, Producer & Reporter: Janelle Nanos, Camera & Editing: Chaney Carlson-Bullock Mikayla Litevich)

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Charging outside of the home is the Achilles heel of the EV industry, with inconsistent and sometimes high pricing policies, frequently broken equipment, and a lack of chargers in key locations for everyone but Tesla drivers.

Behind Mission Hill salon Vanity Loft is a story of community, belonging, and legacy

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‘I’ve learned that things have a cost.’ Meet the migrant children working long hours in factories and fish plants across Mass.

Migrant children gut fish in New Bedford, roof houses in the Boston suburbs, toil deep into the night in greenhouses in Central Massachusetts, and work in restaurant kitchens across the state.

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Rhode Island FC evaluating venue options amid questions about Tidewater Landing stadium

After delays in public financing for the $124 million Pawtucket stadium, Rhode Island FC explores plans to play somewhere else in 2024.

New Russian campaign tries to entice men to fight in Ukraine

A new campaign is underway this spring across Russia, seeking recruits to replenish its troops for the war in Ukraine.

Search on for missing in deadly chocolate factory explosion

An explosion at a chocolate factory in Pennsylvania on Friday killed three people and left four people missing, authorities said.

Landlords rarely hike the rent by 10 percent. So why do they hate Mayor Wu’s cap proposal?

Landlords say they fear the kind of blunt force rent control regime that squeezed landlords in Boston and neighboring cities decades ago.