Regie Gibson, an assistant professor at Berklee College of Music and an instructor at Clark University, has been selected as Massachusetts’ first Poet Laureate. Governor Maura Healey made the ...

A spoken-word poet whose work explores themes of history and hope, Gibson sees his art as ‘a means of bringing people together,’ governor says ...

According to the Massachusetts Legacy Tree Program, the Endicott Pear Tree – a European pear tree named Pyrus communis – was planted between 1632 and 1649 by the first governor of the ...

When Arthur Nigro graduated from Arlington High School, he enrolled at Boston University, but after studying for three years ...

COLD AS ICE — The detention of an 18-year-old Milford High School student who was on his way to volleyball practice over the ...

PEABODY, MA — What began as one North Shore city's passion-filled campaign to move an often-intransigent state legislature to action after children suffered injuries from drivers failing to stop ...

THE MONEY RACE — Josh Kraft has outraised Boston Mayor Michelle Wu since he got in the race for mayor in February, but the incumbent still has more money in her campaign coffers.

Governor Maura Healey honored Gibson ... ahead of a presentation for Gibson at the Peabody Essex Museum. “We congratulate him on his many accomplishments and for being named Massachusetts’s first-ever ...

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South ...

To celebrate the beginning of our 20th year, we’ve set out to catalogue the contributions that Pittsburgh and western ...