Cristina Quinn

Failure rates are up at Everett High School, where more than half the students live in poverty and the burden of the pandemic has made it hard for many students to prioritize school.

One child psychologist gives advice on how to prepare kids for the next phase of reopening.

As the nation marks Black History Month during a pandemic and a racial reckoning, Empowering Young Black Excellence has become a forum for enlightening, inspiring and sometimes difficult conversations.

A Massachusetts judge has ruled that dog breeding is an agricultural business and exempt from local zoning rules.

The pandemic has exacted a brutal toll on Anne Laurie Pierre’s family. But just when things felt utterly bleak, she got some good news about her future.

Analyzing wastewater can predict upcoming levels of COVID-19 infections in a community.

Social distancing means fewer people taking a dip at the same time, if swimming pools can even afford to reopen.

Doctors are channeling their inventive side to battle the pandemic.

Industries that don’t usually collaborate have been coming together.

While it’s not unusual to hear about blood shortages for humans, dogs and cats are as much in need as people.

The high school freshmen who watched Donald Trump get elected in 2016 will cast their own votes for the first time this year.

When a hobby turns into an unhealthy habit gamers often don’t know where to turn.

State Law Raises Wages And Questions About Taxes For Childcare Workers From Abroad

Condo associations oppose proposed state legislation that would allow all Massachusetts residents to use clotheslines.

An experimental surgery called the Ewing amputation allows a person’s brain to move prosthetic limbs as if they were biological limbs.

Activists say doctors should not perform surgery on intersex babies before they’re old enough to consent. In the medical community, though, many say that decision-making for children should remain parents’ responsibility.

A local nonprofit will turn the kiosk into a pop-up community space this winter.

Gender nonconforming students are four times more likely to experience mental health problems than their peers who identify with the sex they were born with, according to a new study by Boston University’s School of Public Health.

A microwave device made at Raytheon in Waltham, called the Amplitron, boosted the broadcast signal so it could reach TV screens on Earth.

Draper Lab created the crucial navigation software used in the Apollo 8 mission to orbit the moon.