Massachusetts voters will decide on a record-tying nine statewide ballot questions today, making it the busiest slate the state has seen in more than three decades. The Globe is here to help you ...

Election Day has arrived for the state’s highest offices, congressional seats, and other campaigns, and the Globe is here to help you navigate the ballot. Here, find information about candidates ...

The story of Aaron Hernandez unspooled rapidly in Boston. Read and listen to the Spotlight series about his life.

E mmanuel Vargas stepped out of his ground-floor Hyde Park apartment and into the morning darkness. He checked the time on his phone: 6:19. He was running behind. He pulled his hood over his head as a ...

T he red-brick nursing home tucked off a busy road in Taunton used to be a rare jewel in a beleaguered industry, polished to a high sheen. Floors gleamed from daily scrubbing. Residents’ clothes came ...

A lexa Arena, a 35-year-old college-educated professional, moved in with her parents to save on rent. Though she works full time, the classic trappings of a middle-class life — the kind she had ...

D r. Young Ho Oh’s patient was headed for disaster. The woman bled heavily throughout her surgery and lost even more blood afterwards. Within hours, an intensive care nurse noticed she had no feeling ...

Seventh in a series examining the challenges facing the Massachusetts economy. Read the full series. S outh Station Tower is something of a miracle. It’s also a reminder that even miracles are of ...

I t was time for school, and the road to get there was underwater. Ryan Murphy’s wife, Eva, called him from the car. She and their then-7-year-old son had been stuck on Morrissey Boulevard for over an ...

Trump said elite universities were run by “Marxist maniacs” and vowed to take them back. Harvard would prove hard to break. “We’re at Harvard in Harvard Square,” Steve Bannon said, leaning into a ...

Yes, those parking lots sat on filled-in mud flats just barely above sea level. Even in the 1980s, there were worries about storms and floods and melting ice caps, but the effects seemed far in the ...