The Week

The Boston weekend marathon

From a thriving dining scene to some of America’s most engaging museums, there’s more than one reason to spend a weekend (and beyond) in Boston. Cambridge, a suburb in the Greater Boston area across ...

The fishing vessel Lily Jean sank off of Massachusetts. Here's what we know about the crewmembers.

A fishing vessel sank off the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts on Friday with seven people on board.
Boston Herald

Massachusetts Senate kills Boston Mayor Wu’s tax shift plan, approves alternative ‘tax shock’ bill

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s tax shift bill was killed again in the state Senate, this time as an amendment to alternative Senate-led property tax shock legislation that was overwhelmingly defeated by ...
The Patriot Ledger

Zillow says Boston is one of 2026's hottest housing markets. Here's why

Boston will have one of the hottest housing markets in the entire country this year, according to Zillow. The real estate marketplace recently released a predicted ranking of 2026's hottest housing ...
Boston Herald

Boston Mayor Wu’s pitch to raise commercial taxes to be voted on by Massachusetts Senate

Familiar battle lines were drawn around Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s contentious push to raise commercial tax rates to provide residential relief, as the state Senate prepares to take up Wu’s proposal ...

Feds launch special probe into TV star fisherman’s boating tragedy off Massachusetts coast

The US Coast Guard is launching a special investigation after the tragic capsizing of a fishing boat off the coast of ...

Coast Guard identifies 7 victims on board Gloucester commercial fishing boat that sank off Massachusetts

The Coast Guard identified seven crew members presumed dead after the fishing vessel "Lily Jean" sank off the Massachusetts ...
The Boston Globe

Mass. Senate votes down Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s property tax proposal, advances other tax relief measures

As property taxes spike for Boston residents, the Massachusetts Senate on Thursday once again shot down a measure pushed by Boston Mayor Michelle Wu that aimed to mitigate painful tax increases for ...
The Patriot Ledger

Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jimmy Fallon name all 351 MA cities and towns with Boston accents

Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Jimmy Fallon got into some Massachusetts shenanigans on NBC's "The Tonight Show" on Tuesday, Jan. 13, attempting to name all 351 cities and towns in the Bay State in quick ...
The Boston Globe

‘A huge opportunity’: Whoop, DraftKings, and other techies form industry group to boost Massachusetts AI economy

With artificial-intelligence startups attracting two-thirds of all US venture capital funding last year, entrepreneurs in Massachusetts have seen the state’s share of VC dollars shrinking. Despite ...
The Business Journals

Boston Scientific plans 300,000-square-foot expansion at Maple Grove campus

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The company seeks a 300,000 ...
The Business Journals

Here are the Mass. communities with the highest tax rates for 2026

On the following slides are the 20 Massachusetts communities (ranked from No. 20 to No. 1) with the highest residential property tax rates as of January 2026 ...