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In Boston, doctors try a dose of nature as medicine

Martha Bebinger

Doctors spend years becoming experts in how the body works, how it can break down and how to recognize and treat various illnesses. Their training rarely involves what’s known as “nature-based medicine.” Dr. Susan Abookire has made it her mission to change that.
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A federal court ruling puts spotlight on abortion in Mass. governor's race

Beth Healy

Mike Minogue, the GOP-endorsed candidate for Massachusetts governor this fall, says he is Catholic and "pro-life." The campaign of his primary rival, Brian Shortsleeve, says 'You cannot beat an incumbent Democrat governor by being anti-choice.'

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How rural Mass. towns are saving green by going green

Bianca Garcia

New England has some of the highest energy costs in the country. Cold winters, along with other rising expenses, have rural towns looking for ways to save money. Many have embraced a switch to electric appliances, powered by home-grown renewable energy as a strategy to spare pocketbooks and help the planet.
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People with heat pumps get a break on electric bills from new Mass. program

Miriam Wasser

New England has some of the highest electricity prices in the country. But this past winter, 140,000 households in Massachusetts got a break on their bills because they have a heat pump.
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Everything you need to know about the 2026 Boston Marathon

Amy Gorel

On Marathon Monday, 30,000 athletes from 137 countries and every state in the U.S. will flock to Hopkinton to kick off the race.
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Somerville pulls buried cars — yes, cars! — out of giant snow pile

Nik DeCosta-Klipa

As a giant snow pile in Somerville slowly melts in the wake of the region's snowiest winter in a decade, city workers are retrieving a fleet of abandoned vehicles that they (intentionally) buried.
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Record number of Mass. residents don’t have enough healthy food to eat

Amanda Beland

More people than ever in Massachusetts say they don’t have enough food to eat, according to the latest Massachusetts Food Access Report from the Greater Boston Food Bank and Mass General Brigham. The rise comes as the cost of living increases and the federal government makes cuts that affect benefits, such as food stamps.
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Opposition to data centers grows in Mass. cities and towns

Bianca Garcia

The ballooning use of artificial intelligence and cloud-based computing is fueling a rise in data centers — which store and process all the information needed to power these systems. Massachusetts residents are joining the pushback.
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Immigrants in Mass. can get free legal help. Beacon Hill is debating the program's future

Chris Van Buskirk

The program, known as the Massachusetts Access to Counsel Initiative, provides pro bono legal assistance to low-income immigrants facing removal.
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Dorchester community honors Haitian man who died in ICE custody

Kevin Vu

The family of Emmanual Cleeford Damas say an untreated toothache while in an immigration detention facility in Arizona quickly spiraled to serious medical conditions.
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A feast of flowers for winter-weary eyes returns to the Gardner Museum

Andrea Shea

The annual “Hanging Nasturtiums” tradition is a harbinger of hope for winter’s end at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Gardner herself started cultivating the delicate, flowering tendrils with her horticulturalists in the early 1900s.
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Federal headwinds threaten the emerging Mass. climate tech industry

Barbara Moran

Under the Trump administration, many entrepreneurs working on climate tech, renewable energy or environmental justice have found their grants delayed, threatened or rescinded. The federal headwinds threaten to slow Gov. Maura Healey's plans to make Massachusetts the global hub for climate tech.