After leaving Dec. 31, the Ward 2 city councilor said, he intends to keep working on community issues, as an activist rather ...

Smart glasses and other wearable technologies were banned from Cambridge Public Schools by a policy order passed Tuesday by ...

Graham & Parks principal Kathleen Smith told staff at a June meeting that this will be her final year, said staff who ...

An engine made by Cambridge’s Blake & Knowles Foundry in 1916. (Photo: Digital Commonwealth) This week, as Cambridge joins the rest of the country in marking the Labor Day holiday, we also mark the ...

Q: What’s the difference between a refundable and nonrefundable tax credit, and why does it matter? A: Both can reduce the taxes you owe, but a refundable credit can go one important step further and ...

Fall is the best moviegoing time of the year. In anticipation of garnering year-end award recognition, Hollywood puts its best foot forward, presenting many of its most ambitious, challenging and ...

New MIT professor Thomas Rose has died from injuries sustained in an Aug. 21 collision at Memorial Drive and Massachusetts ...

A Harvard shuttle travels Cambridge’s Baldwin neighborhood in January. (Photo: Marc Levy) The Independent’s sixth locally themed puzzle – they come every other Saturday courtesy of local creator ...

Retiring state senator Pat Jehlen endorsed a different candidate than Somerville went for in a Democratic primary: Erika ...

Find more of Rusty Epstein’s cartoons here. Rusty Epstein’s work has been published in the New Yorker, the Times Luxury, and Private Eye, among others, and is wildly popular with women over 65 who ...