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Researchers at Harvard and BU found methane emissions are six times higher than state estimates.

All eyes are on the historic race for mayor of Boston. Four years ago, another local mayoral contest made history in Framingham, but the winner there could soon be out of a job after just one term.

While construction at the Suffolk County jail is well underway, some legal experts are questioning how and on what grounds people would be sent to Sheriff Steve Tompkins' facility. Tompkins said people would not be involuntarily committed, but instead would be offered voluntary treatment as an alternative to jail time.

Many districts are turning to data, tutoring and other strategies to catch kids up now that all schools have returned to in-person learning.

Boston's bats went quiet for the third straight game and the Red Sox bowed out of the AL Championship Series with a punchless 5-0 loss to the Houston Astros in Game 6.

Boston.com sports writer Khari Thompson joined WBUR's Weekend Edition to discuss the end of the Boston Red Sox post-season run, and what may have contributed to the team's sudden collapse to the Houston Astros in the 2021 ALCS.

On the Vineyard, the year-round population has been growing for years -- and housing prices with it. But in spring 2020, that slow stream of new-comers became a flood as people moved there to escape the pandemic -- and there have been consequences.

The next mayor will be a woman, and the first mayor in nearly 30 years to have children in the city's public schools.

I don't feel any anger towards my unvaccinated patients, writes Dorothy Novick, only concern and a desire to build trust.