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Here is a map showing which Boston Centers for Youth & Families pools are still open and which ones are closed.

Hundreds of high school students in Massachusetts and across the country walked out of their classrooms Friday afternoon to protest a wave of anti-queer government actions in Florida and Texas.

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It’s been an unusually busy year for Zoo New England: Amid cautious reopenings and surging variants, the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston and Stone Zoo in Stoneham welcomed a combined 1 million visitors by late November — a record.

An order of nuns that has owned a rooming house for single women near Kenmore Square has agreed to sell the building after years of criticism that the owners and a property manager were trying to replace long-term tenants with students who would pay higher rents.

For three years, Said Noor asked the US government to help relocate his family out of Afghanistan. Finally, with help from Seth Moulton’s office, the news came: If they could get to a gas station in Kabul, they could join him in Houston.

Looking back at history, Samantha Maltais said she was often struck by how often the fate of tribal members in legal matters was left to outsiders who had to argue their cases in court. So she intends to become a lawyer.

The court issued decisions aimed at assuring that equal protection under the law replaces what the panel called the “long history of race-based policing” in Massachusetts.

“We’re the ones that have to respond, to take care of people. And it does greatly impact you,” said Police Commissioner William Gross.

Two years ago, Joaquin Oliver was among 17 people killed in a school shooting in Parkland. His image is now being featured on a new billboard, designed by his father, that urges people to vote in bracing words.

State lawmakers who led an unannounced inspection of a Mass. maximum-security prison Sunday said they were shaken by the conditions they found at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center.

A 16-year-old injured in a stabbing on Blue Hill Avenue Saturday evening has died, according to Boston police.

Reeling from accusations of inappropriate behavior by its former artistic director, Boston Children’s Theatre filed for bankruptcy Wednesday and is shutting down just before its annual holiday performances.