The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters rescued 500 Blue Line riders from an outbound train that up and died in the tunnel between Aquarium and Maverick this afternoon. Read more.

Update: No, Paine didn't write his famous pamphlet here. He wrote it in Philadelphia. They have a historic marker and everything. Jeez.The city posted this photo of Public Works workers hard at work ...

WCVB reports the man apparently intentionally got on the outbound tracks at Aquarium as a train was approaching around 10:30 a.m.

The manager of an apartment building on Beacon Street in Brookline and a trash-removal company today sued Republic Services, whose Teamster workers are on strike, which means increasingly large and ...

It's good, actually, when people want to replace dilapidated vacant buildings with new housing and other amenities. Yearning for empty storefronts and crumbling facades (with permanent sidewalk ...