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The Boston mayor’s race may be all but decided, as incumbent Michelle Wu runs unopposed, but there are other races afoot. In the election for City Council, a conservative-leaning, "lunch-bucket Democrat" says he wants to bring more “balance” to a largely progressive body.

Scott Brown and the Diplomats — the name a nod to his time as ambassador — played a string of dates this summer across New Hampshire. Brown is an unlikely frontman considering he is again running for New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate seat in 2026.

Joan Brugge's research into breast cancer is one of hundreds of projects at Harvard caught up in an ongoing dispute with the Trump administration over the university’s handling of antisemitism on campus. Last spring, the administration froze nearly $3 billion in research grants and contracts to punish Harvard.

Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch has defended comments he made this week that the clergy sexual abuse scandal that rocked the Archdiocese of Boston in the early 2000s was more about homosexuality than pedophilia.

Local suicide prevention organizations are trying to fill a gap left by President Trump's policies. Reporter Paul C. Kelly Campos takes us inside a group based in Fall River that's working to provide the care people need.

The City Council last year approved a pay raise that would put Mayor Thomas Koch's salary above the mayors of Boston and New York City. That sparked a movement that had its first big win this week — a signature drive to get a question on the November ballot that lets voters decide on the pay hike.

Suya Joint owner Cecelia Lizotte has served up Nigerian dishes at her Roxbury restaurant for 10 years. But early this summer her brother and operational manager, Paul Dama was detained by ICE. Typically, he helps run the restaurant, but his absence has upended Lizotte's business. It's an example of how Trump's immigration actions can take a toll on restaurants.

Bicknell's thrush travel thousands of miles every year to nest and raise their young in some of the most rugged places in New England. But their populations are declining, and scientists are trying to learn more about them in hopes they can reverse the trend.

The president has not called out Boston as a city in need of a military presence, but Boston has been doing battle with the Trump administration in other ways for months. Most local elected leaders are united against any National Guard presence in Boston. But the nation, and some in the city, are deeply split.

Telehealth vans parked outside Harvard and Northeastern are connecting college students with counseling support.