The Kentucky Derby will take place Saturday at Churchill Downs. Here's a look at the horses in the field, as well as their ...

A new permanent exhibition in Boston is focusing on ancestry and family history, and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Body mass index (BMI) is the tool doctors use to calculate whether someone is underweight, at a healthy weight, overweight or obese. But because BMI calculations can't tell the difference between body ...

Many people find the smell that emits from the Bradford Pear to closely resemble the smell of urine or rotting fish. It is meant to attract pollinators like blowflies, but it has the unfortunate side ...

Megan Ward is stepping down as executive director of the James Library & Center for the Arts in Norwell, effective June 30.

Plimoth Patuxet Museums' annual Spring Heirloom Plant Sale will occur over two weekends in May. The sale offers over 100 ...

US employers added 177,000 jobs in April as Trump's tariffs took effect; unemployment at 4.2%, April jobs report shows.

For two of Massachusetts' better known restaurant chains, April was not a good month. Wahlburgers, a burger and sandwich chain founded by Paul Wahlburg, brother of Mark and Donnie Wahlburg, closed its ...

When put to the ultimate test, the vow “in sickness and in health” isn’t as strong as some couples might think − particularly if the wife is sick.