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Cambridge City Councilor Quinton Zondervan said: “I’ve been working on this for a very long time, and this is really the first serious, significant climate action that the city has taken.”

Cambridge enacts ambitious building emissions reduction standards

“It’s really quite groundbreaking,” said Councilor Quinton Zondervan, who worked on the legislation.

The MBTA’s new leader is more optimistic about Boston’s subway than you are
Can Phil Eng actually turn the dumpster fire of a transit agency around? “People think I’m crazy, but I’m happy I’m here,” he said.

Brockton historian Willie A. Wilson Jr. talked about the Liberty Tree, on Frederick Douglass Avenue. The City of Brockton is working to acquire the property from which it grows. The tree was a marker of the Underground Railroad.

Brockton hopes to see Liberty Tree rise again

Brockton's Liberty Tree can be tied to the Underground Railroad and historical abolitionist figures ranging from Frederick Douglass to Lucretia Mott.

For Red Sox prospects Nick Yorke and Marcelo Mayer the Futures Game felt inevitable, but for Luis Guerrero it’s an unlikely tale
“The round [where you’re drafted] is just a number,” said Guerrero, a 17th-round pick. “I’m here right now. I love it.”

Jarren Duran (center) has been right in the middle of things, along with Masataka Yoshida (left) and Alex Verdugo, for a productive Red Sox outfield.

RED SOX 10, ATHLETICS 3

Jarren Duran, offense continue to click for streaking Red Sox in another win over the A’s

Duran was 3 for 5 with a single, double, and home run, and he scored three times. With 15 hits in their fourth straight victory, the Red Sox made it a majors-best seven consecutive games with 10-plus.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

As conservative activism targets sex ed, new Mass. guidelines are on the horizon

After five years of working on new standards, the state is bringing some clarity on sex education to the classroom.

Beverly woman and Boy Scout among three dead in separate water tragedies in New Hampshire

The tragedies occurred in a span of several hours and drew a major response from multiple local and state public safety agencies.

Falmouth deals with aftermath of rowdy July Fourth beach parties
Restaurant workers, public safety employees, and residents expressed concern on Saturday after days of parties had left beaches trashed.

Can Joe Biden make it ‘Morning in America’ again? Reagan’s ‘84 campaign offers a potential blueprint for reelection.

Ronald Reagan won a second term by running on a theme of economic renewal. Now, some political experts said Reagan’s legendary turnaround offers a potential template for victory for Joe Biden 40 years later.

Biden is heading to Europe. A king and a war are on his agenda.

Boston city councilor apologizes after crashing car into Jamaica Plain home

Kendra Lara struck a home on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain in the afternoon of June 30 leaving her 7-year-old son with cuts that required stitches at Boston Children’s Hospital, according to her office.

Iowa GOP schedules Jan. 15 for leadoff presidential caucuses. It’s on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Maine company responsible for ‘highly hazardous’ fireworks shells that washed up on Chappaquiddick Island, state officials say

JD Davison could be in line as the third point guard for the Celtics.

Gary Washburn | On Basketball

For Celtics, Summer League is a proving ground for prospects JD Davison and Jordan Walsh, both of whom could make the team

Davison spent most of last season with G-League Maine and Walsh was the team's top pick in 2023.

Jordan Walsh takes confident first steps in Celtics’ summer league opener

A farm dinner at Chatham Bars Inn Farm is served family style, so diners get to know each other quickly.

Forget farm-to-table — they’re bringing the table to the farm

If you like fresh food — well, it doesn’t get any fresher.

Having Shohei Ohtani (above) and Ronald Acuña Jr. pick the All-Star teams would make it more interesting.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

Baseball has made many significant changes, and now it’s time to improve the All-Star Game

The American League vs. the National League had its day and that day has passed.

Former Red Sox closer Craig Kimbrel among four pitchers added to National League All-Star roster

Opinion

A bicyclist made their way down the bus lane on Boylston Street between Exeter Street and Dartmouth Street on June 27.

Make way for bicycles on Boylston

Boston, called a "bicycling paradise" in the 1800s, should encourage more residents to commute on two wheels. The city’s proposal to add a protected bike lane on Boylston Street is a step in that direction.

Latino groups challenge Harvard’s legacy admissions

Grupos latinos cuestionan admisiones en Harvard

Why should state legislators control the fate of rent control in Boston?

Canada, when you’re done with Justin Trudeau, send him here

More recent News

YVONNE ABRAHAM

When it comes to extreme heat, we’re all in hot water. But some of us are in deeper than others.
The return of weather pattern El Niño has given us record-shattering air and water temperatures, alarming ice melt in Antarctica, and dangerous heat for tens of millions of people across the planet.

Driver charged in crash that killed 19-year-old police officer in Rutland, Vt.

Tate Rheaume, 20, is to be arraigned Monday for the crash that killed Officer Jessica Ebbighausen, who joined the force part-time in May, and injured two other officers on Friday, Vermont State Police said.

One motorcyclist killed, another seriously injured early Saturday in Taunton crash

Officers responded around 2:30 a.m. to the crash site on Route 24, where Fred Moreira, 35, of New Bedford, had hit the motorcycles, leading two men to be thrown from their bikes, according to State Police.

Uri Geller has been bending reality for 50 years
Bent spoons are Uri Geller's hallmark. He did it in 1973, and he's been a mystifying force ever since.

Lexington celebrates first Massachusetts Emancipation Day
Also known as Quock Walker Day, this was the first celebration since Governor Healey designated July 8 an official day back in September.

LOVE LETTERS

Will I get over his affair?
“It lasted about six weeks and ended because I discovered it.”

Recommended reads

South Boston officials toured the Mary Ellen McCormack development in the days after a woman was found dead in an apartment and state took four children into custody.

The discovery of a dead body in Southie led to 4 kids entering DCF custody and is now the front line of a Boston culture war

It is still not clear how the woman died. However, the death — and the public safety response to it — touched off a bitter political spat that in some ways mirrors the culture war that continues to unfold across the country.

‘A nightmare of epic proportions’: Thousands of Mass. residents languish on subsidized housing wait lists
The Globe talked to three residents about their years-long journey to find an affordable place to call home.

Beth Teitell | Commentary

Do you really need to leave two EXTRA hours to get to Logan with the Sumner Tunnel closed? Officials say yes. But where did that number come from?
At an airport Dunkin’ on Thursday locals were complaining the trip to the airport was too fast. Where was the traffic they’d been promised?

Two hours before my husband died, we were laughing over spilt milk
Our daughters were only 4 and 8 when he died. I’ve tried to fill their lives with their dad’s sense of joy and adventure.

Culture & Lifestyle

Rashid Johnson, “Antoine’s Organ,” 2016. Black steel, grow lights, plants, wood, shea butter, books, monitors, rugs, piano.

At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum this summer, art that lives and grows

Jamie Lee Curtis as Donna in "The Bear."

‘The Bear’ upends the TV-mom trope

Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity co-founders Kyle Homstead and Cassandra Holden, shown in the Florence Congregational Church sanctuary that doubles as a concert venue.

Concerts create discord between Northampton arts center and city

Still from "Final Cut" (2022) by Michel Hazanavicius

MFA’s 2023 Boston French Film Festival returns July 6

Special Projects

Main marathon 10th anniversary gif

Their lives were rerouted after the Marathon bombing. Here’s where they are now.

Five lives were lost; many more, changed.

Boston, MA—12/14/2022 - Commuters wait for the T to arrive at Ruggles Station. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Boston doesn’t work if the T doesn’t work

With the MBTA engulfed by issues, everyday riders are feeling the pain.

Brittany Tee, Soomaiiah Quraiishi, and Reina Morales Rojas are among thousands of people thought to be missing from Massachusetts.

How the missing become the uncounted

Inside the government’s flawed approach to finding missing persons.

Two Weeks in America

Two Weeks in America

We sent a dozen journalists on the road across this complex country. They found it’s better than you think.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Construction at the Central Square train station in Lynn on June 5.

The MBTA let the Lynn commuter rail station fall apart. The T should now expedite its reopening.

Joan Wickersham

The unexpected intimacy of a Zoom memorial service

“The Convergence of the Twain” leans into not knowing.

IDEAS | JUSTIN C. TACKETT

What Thomas Hardy knew about the unknowable

US singer Tracy Chapman performs during the 15th edition of the Vieilles Charrues Music Festival, on July 23, 2006 in Carhaix-Plouguer, western France.

A ‘Fast Car’ takes a 35-year journey to become a No. 1 country hit

A typhoon turned at least one umbrella inside out in Tokyo in 2017.

IDEAS | BARBARA WALLRAFF

May I have a word: Umbrellas gone haywire

Are you a teen with a story to tell? Globe Ideas wants to hear from you.

Metro

Driver charged in crash that killed 19-year-old police officer in Rutland, Vt.

Tate Rheaume, 20, is to be arraigned Monday for the crash that killed Officer Jessica Ebbighausen, who joined the force part-time in May, and injured two other officers on Friday, Vermont State Police said.

Falmouth deals with aftermath of rowdy July Fourth beach parties

Restaurant workers, public safety employees, and residents expressed concern on Saturday after days of parties had left beaches trashed.

Lexington celebrates first Massachusetts Emancipation Day

Also known as Quock Walker Day, this was the first celebration since Governor Healey designated July 8 an official day back in September.

Striking drivers from California picket outside Amazon warehouse in Norwood

The workers deliver packages on behalf of Amazon in Palmdale, Calif., and walked off the job in June after joining the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Sports

West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins watches from the bench during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Iowa State, on Feb. 27, in Ames, Iowa.

Bob Huggins says he never resigned as West Virginia’s coach and wants his job back, attorney claims

Bob Huggins says he never resigned as West Virginia’s basketball coach following a drunken-driving arrest and wants his job back, according to a letter from his attorney to the university.

When Nasa Hataoka finished No. 18 at Pebble Beach, she was all by herself on the top of the US Women's Open leaderboard.

US Women's Open

Nasa Hataoka masters winds at Pebble Beach to take lead as US Women’s Open

On a day so tough that only 10 players broke par, the 24-year-old Hataoka was the only one to break 70, and her score was nearly nine shots better than the field average.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone crosses the finish line to win the women's 400 meter final during the US track and field championships in Eugene, Ore.

US track and field championships

Spreading her wings in a new event, hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone wins women’s 400 at US track and field championships

The record-setting 400-meter hurdler, made her forary into the women's 400-meter dash look easy by cruising across the line in a meet-record time of 48.74 seconds at the US track and field championships.

RED BULLS 2, REVOLUTION 1

Review negates stoppage time equalizer and shorthanded Revolution fall to Red Bulls

Boston Renegades 58, Alabama Fire 6

Boston Renegades trample Alabama Fire to earn berth in Women’s Football Alliance championship game

For Red Sox prospects Nick Yorke and Marcelo Mayer the Futures Game felt inevitable, but for Luis Guerrero it’s an unlikely tale

Business

As whiskey and bourbon business booms, beloved distillers face pushback over taxes and emissions

The growing popularity of the industry around the world is fueling conflicts at home.

Uri Geller has been bending reality for 50 years

Bent spoons are Uri Geller's hallmark. He did it in 1973, and he's been a mystifying force ever since.

US Treasury chief Yellen appeals to China for cooperation on climate and other global challenges

Against the odds, the US economy chugs along, as fears linger

magazine

Frank Smith was locked up for eight decades, likely longer than anyone alive.

Frank Smith was locked up for eight decades. At 98, what would it mean to be free?

HP Component Magazine tie

Two hours before my husband died, we were laughing over spilt milk

This week's daters: William and Travis.

Dinner with Cupid

‘My date … recently joined the social sports league that I play [in]’

I attended the Market Basket Academy of summer jobs.

metro

Students at the Urban School of San Francisco attended a health class focused on affirmative consent. California became the first state to require that all high school health education classes give lessons on affirmative consent.

As conservative activism targets sex ed, new Mass. guidelines are on the horizon

Cambridge enacts ambitious building emissions reduction standards

When it comes to extreme heat, we’re all in hot water. But some of us are in deeper than others.

sports

The New England Free Jacks celebrate their first Major League Rugby championship after scoring a 25-24 victory over the San Diego Legion in the title game Saturday in Bridgeview, Ill.

New England Free Jacks capture first Major League Rugby title in franchise history

Jordan Walsh takes confident first steps in Celtics’ summer league opener

Jarren Duran, offense continue to click for streaking Red Sox in another win over the A’s

business

An exterior view of a Christmas Tree Shops store on July 5 in Waldorf, Md. Christmas Tree Shops disclosed in a court filing after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May that the chain will close all of its locations in the coming weeks.

Christmas Tree Shops lays off a third of its Mass. workforce, plans to close all stores

Twitter killer? Here’s what to know about Threads, the new app from Meta.

Wall Street Journal calls for the release of journalist Evan Gershkovich after 100 days in Russian prison

politics

A pedestrian walks past a sign for the Iowa Caucuses on a downtown skywalk, in Des Moines, Iowa, on Feb. 4, 2020.

Iowa GOP schedules Jan. 15 for leadoff presidential caucuses. It’s on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Can Joe Biden make it ‘Morning in America’ again? Reagan’s ‘84 campaign offers a potential blueprint for reelection.

Biden is heading to Europe. A king and a war are on his agenda.

Nation

Visitors walk away from the Jack Daniels Distillery visitor center carrying boxes of whiskey Wednesday, June 14, 2023, in Lynchburg, Tenn. A destructive and unsightly black fungus which feeds on ethanol emitted by whiskey barrels has been found growing on property near the distillery's barrelhouses. (AP Photo/John Amis)

As whiskey and bourbon business booms, beloved distillers face pushback over taxes and emissions

The mango is king of the Miami summer

Climate change ratchets up the stress on farmworkers on the front lines of a warming Earth

World

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (right) spoke to journalists during an event for the return of commanders of Ukrainian forces who held Mariupol's resistance in the city's Azovstal steel plant, in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday.

On Ukraine war’s 500th day, Russia strikes and Zelensky shows defiance

James Dobbins, US diplomat in global hot spots, dies at 81

The UN refuses to retract its condemnation of Israel over the Jenin military operation

opinion

Former congresswoman Liz Cheney appeared onstage in conversation with David Rubenstein at the 92d Street Y on June 26 in New York.

Imagine a President Cheney — it’s easy if you try

A floating perch gives new meaning to remote work

The Environmental Voter Project’s eye-catching innovations

lifestyle

New Bedford Public Library Director Olivia Melo points to a stamp dating to 1882 when the New Bedford library system acquired the book, on July 7, in New Bedford, Mass.

Extremely overdue book returned to New Bedford library 119 years later

12 out-of-this-world films to fuel your UFO curiosity

Will I get over his affair?

food & dining

Chef Chris Viaud is reshaping New Hampshire's food scene by bringing the flavors of Haiti to his restaurants in Milford and Wolfeboro.

How Chris Viaud returned to his Haitian roots and reshaped NH’s food scene

A Taste of Ethnic Boston returns to Big Night Live

Up & Down opens in Jamaica Plain; Las Palmas moves into the Garage

travel

Sand dunes at Cape Cod National Seashore in Provincetown, Mass., May 22, 2023.

This Mass. beach camping site ranked as one of the best in the country

Spotlight on Dover, N.H., as it celebrates its 400th anniversary

Daydreaming about a daycation? It’s now a reality.

Arts

Matthew Wong, "Path to the Sea," 2019 (left) and "Unknown Pleasures," 2019. From "Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances," a retrospective exhibition of the artist's work at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

In his scant six years of painting, Matthew Wong built a vision all his own

At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum this summer, art that lives and grows

John Guthrie’s ‘Evolution’ brings together the unexpected

Books

The prosperous Brookline family of Andrew Ridker’s ‘Hope’ struggles in the aftermath of their own spectacular misjudgments

David Lipsky’s ‘The Parrot and the Igloo’ details the forces behind decades of climate change denial

In ‘After the Funeral,’ Tessa Hadley’s quietly brilliant stories harbor a rebel heart

Movies

A still from the documentary "Desperate Souls, Dark City, and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy."

‘Desperate Souls, Dark City, and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy’ has a lot to say — maybe too much

‘Joy Ride’: Four friends road trip through China in this raunchy comedy

Everyone is talking about the ‘Barbie’ movie. Here’s a guide to all the hype.

Television

Yvonne Orji, left, as Molly and Issa Rae as Issa in "Insecure."

Watch for HBO series landing on Netflix

Max’s Harry Potter series to cover seven books in 10 years

‘The Bear’ upends the TV-mom trope

music

Members of the chamber orchestra A Far Cry performing at Rockport's Shalin Liu Performance Center on Thursday night.

An American portrait in disparate voices

The Eagles’ farewell tour is coming to Boston

‘Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’ is here. Here’s how to reconsider Taylor Swift’s transformative album.

Theater/Dance

From left: Firdous Bamji, Steven Skybell, and Joshua David Robinson. Among them, the three actors handle dozens of roles in "The Lehman Trilogy."

Meet the ‘Lehman Trilogy’ cast, three actors juggling dozens of roles

In ‘The Normal Heart,’ the AIDS crisis and a battle against an epidemic of indifference

Mark Morris Dance Group opens Jacob’s Pillow with buoyant ‘The Look of Love’

globe local

Brothers Brian Worrell (left), District 4 Councilor, and state Representative Chris Worrell just opened a district office on Erie Street.

Worrell brothers, one a councilor and one a state representative, open joint Dorchester office for ‘top-notch constituent services’

Fire destroys multiple homes along beachfront in Scituate

Reading harpist returns to hometown for performance with the US Air Force Concert Band

Obituaries

Workers cut away steel from the roof of the Helen Hayes Theater as part of the demolition of the building, in New York, in 1982. Mr. Goldstein reacted to the razing of several venerable Broadway theaters under a Times Square redevelopment plan by helping to organize a successful campaign to give landmark status to more than two dozen other theaters.

Jack Goldstein, a savior of Broadway theaters, dies at 74

Winnie Ewing, who transformed Scottish politics, dies at 93

Dr. Susan Love, groundbreaking breast cancer surgeon, activist, and author, dies at 75