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.

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 ...

Content warning: This story includes descriptions of the sexual abuse of children. T here used to be a garage behind the house on the corner, but it’s long gone. Today, the cement path that led to it ...

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 ...

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 ...

There was only one bed available at Pathways, a Bradford group home for teens in crisis, when a state worker secured a spot there for G Araujo. The home was supposed to be a haven for the vulnerable ...

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 ...

T he late-morning sun was already high and hot over the brownstones in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood when a sleek bus pulled to a stop at a mostly deserted street corner. Five dozen people emerged ...

TULSA, Okla. — On May 31, 2020, six days after the murder of George Floyd, a welding inspector named Thomas Ryan Knight went to his first protest, a Black Lives Matter demonstration. It was hot but ...