For 250 years, historians have argued over who fired first at the Battle of Lexington, when Massachusetts militiamen faced British soldiers about 20 miles west of Boston.

An 89-year-old Dorchester man claims in a lawsuit that his grand-niece tricked him into signing away his home. But federal ...

The Boston 5K will feature over 100 pro athletes and 10,000 participants on Saturday, with a new route ending at the iconic ...

Good Friday, when Catholics reflect on Jesus’ crucifixion, was easy to see on a warm spring day in the Boston Common.

Natick claims four-plus miles of the Boston Marathon course, including one of the liveliest in Natick Center. Runners hit the ...

The Boston Marathon presented by Bank of America is coming, and emotions are running high—and not just because athletes will ...

A Boston police officer discharged a weapon Thursday morning as they tried to subdue a "vicious dog" outside the Boston ...

Limber up and eat some pasta, because we're about to test you with a bit of Boston Marathon trivia for every mile of the run.

The dog was eventually found in the Boston Common/ Downtown Crossing area where officers were eventually able to tase the dog ...

Their stories were not well preserved in art or textbooks, yet recent scholarship in Concord and Lexington aims to uncover ...

April 23 marks the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Rally on Boston Common, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In what became the first major Civil Rights march in the Northeast, more than 20,000 gather ...

In April 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a march from Carter Playground on the edge of Roxbury to Boston Common. It was ...