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Thanks to an increased deduction included in last year's tax cut package, Massachusetts renters can claim an extra $50 on their tax returns in 2024 and beyond. But some experts and activists say the benefit doesn't do much to help struggling renters.

There were 440 antisemitic incidents in Massachusetts in 2023, a nearly 190% increase compared to 152 incidents in 2022, according to a new report by the the Anti-Defamation League. Some 127 Massachusetts cities and towns recorded at least one antisemitic incident last year, including assaults, white supremacist propaganda, vandalism of Jewish institutions and incidents at K-12 schools.

The action as a whole seeks to represent a statewide class of young adults ages 18 to 22 who are serving time in county jails and have IEPs but are not receiving the panel of services to which they're entitled under state law.

Attorney General Andrea Campbell has issued an advisory cautioning developers, businesses and users of artificial intelligence that they must comply with state laws governing data privacy as well as consumer and anti-discrimination protections.

CRRC recently reworked a contract with the MBTA. That project is also years behind schedule and has been beset with vehicle reliability issues.

The city is replacing aging and faulty water meters and sending out bills for underpayments amounting to thousands of dollars in some cases.

The Celtics know this franchise is judged by championships. And for the buckets of success this year’s team has had, it will mean nothing if it doesn’t end with the raising of its 18th championship banner to TD Garden’s rafters.

The author and musician examines how ribald rhymes heard in fields, jails and queer-friendly underground parties in the early 20th century were buried for decades by folklorists and record companies who were either uninterested or simply not allowed to collect and issue such material.

Plus, "Book of Mountains and Seas" at ArtsEmerson and the Massachusetts Craft Brewers Festival.

For the longest time, joy felt like a ghost of the past, writes Nina Sharma. Then we took a collective deep breath, and began to sing.

Massachusetts state-funded preschool programs met six out of 10 of the research institute's quality standards and ranked highly when it comes to 3-year-old preschool access.

An Oklahoma man has been arrested after authorities accused him of throwing a pipe bomb at the headquarters of a group in Salem, Massachusetts, called The Satanic Temple. Sean Patrick Palmer, of Perkins, Oklahoma, has been charged with using an explosive to damage a building following an attack last week on the headquarters.

Hundreds of Vermont farms are still recovering from July’s catastrophic flooding and other extreme weather as they head into this year’s growing season. Vermont's agriculture secretary says while the grants ranging from $200 to $1800 won’t make farms whole, they hopefully will help pay a bill or two.

Barry Cadden, the former head of New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts, will be sentenced in Michigan for 11 deaths more than a decade ago that were tied to tainted steroids. Steroids made in the dirty lab sickened more than 700 people in 20 states.

Leaders of the Worcester Regional Transit Authority voted Thursday to keep its buses free through June 2025. The bus system has not charged riders since the pandemic began in the spring of 2020.

President Joe Biden will accept endorsements from at least 15 members of the Kennedy political family during a campaign stop in Philadelphia Thursday. The prominent Democratic family has been vocal that they don't see eye to eye politically with Robert Kennedy Jr. Both Democrats and Republicans worry that Kennedy's candidacy could spoil their respective campaigns.

James Parker was 16 when he was part of a conspiracy with his best friend that resulted in the deaths of two Dartmouth professors in Hanover, New Hampshire. Now just shy of 40, he was granted parole, years after pleading guilty to being an accomplice to second-degree murder and serving nearly the minimum term of his 25-years-to-life sentence.

Students at all seven public schools in Falmouth will be composting by the end of this school year. The district is joining other schools across the region that have launched efforts to keep tons of food waste out of the trash, opting instead to turn scraps into soil.

A new Harvard Kennedy School poll found adults under 30 favoring President Biden, especially women. Leading concerns among young voters are the economy, abortion rights and the war in Gaza. Students in Greater Boston echoed these concerns in interviews with WBUR.

A Michigan judge suddenly postponed the sentencing Barry Cadden, man at the center of a fatal meningitis outbreak that hit multiple states on Thursday, dismaying people who were poised to speak about their grief 12 years after the tragedy. More than 700 people in 20 states were sickened with meningitis or other debilitating illnesses and at least 64 died.

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