In 2022, Brett Smiley, a relative moderate, became mayor of Providence after vowing to address housing and public safety. In ...

Research on Boston's Home for Aged Colored Women offers a poignant window into a past we only thought we knew.

Boston City Hall was designated a historical landmark on Jan. 25, to both praise and disapproval from readers.

Boston City Hall, notoriously considered among the world’s ugliest buildings, has been designated a local historic landmark.

Kansas has a new mural in its Statehouse honoring women who campaigned for voting rights for decades before the 1920 ...

RENSSELAER — This small Hudson River city is where one of the nation’s oldest European settlements existed around 1630, and where in the 19th Century ... sound city,” Mayor Michael Stammel ...

Efforts to rezone downtown and develop a new soccer stadium in Jamaica Plain have sparked debate about the balance of ...

Forget the record books. Boston's biggest storms have made it into our regional lore. Here are a few we're still talking ...

Former President Barack Obama ordered it changed in 2015 from its previous name “McKinley,” which was a tribute to President William McKinley, designated in the late 19th century by a gold ...

The New York Saint Patrick’s Day parade has a long, fascinating history. Boston claims the oldest celebrations of St. Patrick ...