Janelle Nanos

El Kaliouby, who serves as the Deputy CEO of the Swedish company Smart Eye, helped develop technology that is used to help reduce the risk of distracted driving.

They’ve suffered through station shutdowns, slow zones, train breakdowns, and more. And yet still they ride, keeping our mass transit system alive.

Katie Theoharides, who became president and CEO of the country’s oldest land trust this year, sees each of the Trustees’ 120 properties across the Commonwealth as an engine of hope.

The Brookline-based restaurateur is figuring out how to help the best existing restaurants survive in what has become an increasingly difficult climate to hang on.

The Arsenal Yards development is a mixed-use playground with a slate of new retail on the way, but given its current collection of empty storefronts, it feels to some like Watertown’s downtown got passed by.

An authority on child sex trafficking, she spent decades trying to understand whether the unthinkable happened to her, too.

Its downtown has what might possibly be the nation’s only gaming district — complete with karaoke, comic books, a science lab-themed mini-golf attraction, and the Swedish gaming phenomenon Boda Borg.

Diana Rastegayeva and Olivia Adams created new online tools and volunteer networks just when they were needed most.

As restaurants face another COVID winter, Mass. lawmakers urge Congress to refill restaurant relief funds.

Retailers big and small have encouraged customers to shop early and choose expedited shipping, or — gasp! — actually go to stores where they can walk out with gifts in hand. So is it working?