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"I hope, whatever your religious or non-religious station might be, that you have something like prayer because you're going to need a little bit of a miracle."

Georden West had been developing an idea about LGBTQ nightclub workers for years. The pandemic shutting everything down made the task of writing the film even more urgent, as they spent the time preparing for production and reflecting on the loss of life and much needed community space.

Family members and friends are mourning the two longtime public servants who were killed by a gunman in Winthrop on Saturday.

Fifty years ago, something that would come to shape modern U.S. history happened on the steps of the federal courthouse in Boston: Daniel Ellsberg surrendered to authorities.

The BPD is currently without a leader, embroiled in multiple scandals, and facing criticism for not doing more to reduce crime.

Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins joined WBUR's Morning Edition to talk about why her office is investigating a Winthrop shooting that killed two people over the weekend as a hate crime.

Democrats and Republicans in Washington increasingly agree it is time to legalize marijuana at the federal level; the trouble is lawmakers don't see eye to eye on how to do it.

Before Twitter, there was the People's Yellow Pages, an exhaustive directory of Boston-area activist organizations assembled in a small Cambridge storefront. Fifty years later it stands as a testament to grassroots ingenuity and the radical idealism of '70s counterculture.

Increased caution is advised at many Massachusetts beaches, lakes and pools this summer.

Sometimes the experience of grief or trauma can be a catalyst for positive transformation – a process psychologists call post-traumatic growth. For young people, some psychologists believe COVID-19 could lead to a generation of growth.