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Meteorologists walk a fine line to get a forecast right. Who’s responsible when they don’t?

Forecasters say there’s always room for uncertainty in their weather predictions, even with the most sophisticated technology.

Here's a look at how the storm unfolded Photos: Nor’easter shifts south, hits coastal Massachusetts

Snow day or not? Canceling school is not an easy call.

City and district officials said they weigh such factors as the predicted safety of road conditions.

‘I wanted to go sledding’: The big snow bummer
As the climate warms, southern New England is losing its snow days.

Here’s a look at snowfall totals from the storm

T employees kept watch of the MBTA's sprawling system at its operations center in Boston.

‘We are not the MBTA we were in 2015′: T says it was ready for big snowstorm that never came

CDC plans to drop five-day COVID isolation guidelines

Americans who test positive for COVID-19 no longer need to routinely stay home from work and school for five days under new guidance planned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This Valentine’s Day, can neighbors end their fight over affordable housing in Dorchester?

House GOP will try again to impeach Mayorkas after failing once. The vote could be tight this time, too.

FEMA rejects Healey’s request for disaster relief in three counties after Sept. flooding

Lawmaker seeks official pronunciation of ‘Concord,’ New Hampshire’s capital city

Amazon is delivering packages around the Boston area using a fleet of Rivian-made, electric delivery vans based in a warehouse in Bellingham. (Aaron Pressman)

innovation beat

Where do all those Amazon EV delivery vans recharge?

Hint: It's not in Boston.

In Eastie, an early glimpse at Boston’s existential and expensive struggle to hold back the sea
Boston began planning for sea level rise almost a decade ago. Now, as the city’s climate adaptation strategy takes shape, it’s raising thorny questions about cost and gentrification.

Cliff Canavan's arm was broken last year attempting to break up a fight. He stood in front of where the fight occurred under the school's stadium bleachers.

With violence at Brockton High School a near-daily problem, teachers are at a breaking point

Teachers and parents said the fights and general chaos at the school, while an issue for some time, have escalated this year.

Sandy LoGrande and her father, Salvatore “Sam” LoGrande, at his home on her wedding day in 1996. After his death, LoGrande had to fight to keep the family home as MassHealth sought to recoup the money Medicaid spent for her father’s care.

Mass. burdens poor by overly aggressive policy to recoup Medicaid costs after death, report says

There’s no upper limit on how much Massachusetts can try to recoup, and for some the bill can total hundreds of thousands of dollars.

A feast at the newly reopened La Ventana in Burlington.

WHAT SHE'S HAVING | KARA BASKIN

Some of Greater Boston’s best food is in . . . Burlington?

From tacos to dosas to banh mi and more, Amy Poehler’s hometown has more than just a mall.

Devra First: Where to eat for Valentine’s Day without a reservation

Bill Belichick (left) and Robert Kraft went their separate ways as of Jan. 11.

christopher l. gasper

If frugality led to the Patriots’ downfall, blame Bill Belichick, not Robert Kraft

When it came to spending money on players, the buck stopped with the former coach, literally.

Want to dress and eat like a ‘DunKing’? The tracksuits are sold out.

Alex Cora said last season — with the Red Sox going 78-84 — took a toll on him mentally and physically.

peter abraham | on baseball

The air is heavy with uncertainty as Alex Cora enters the final year of his Red Sox contract

Asked if he wants to be in Boston beyond this year, the sixth-year Red Sox manager said, “I don’t want to talk about that right now."

As spring training begins, will the Red Sox make more changes?

Jon Stewart, shown at the Stand Up For Heroes Benefit in New York in November, returned to the anchor desk of "The Daily Show" Monday night for the first time since his departure in 2016.

MATTHEW GILBERT

Jon Stewart is back at ‘The Daily Show,’ and he doesn’t spare Joe Biden

He spent a big chunk of his monologue grieving the likely repeat of the 2020 presidential contest and, in particular, worrying about the advanced ages of both Donald Trump and the president.

Church moderator Deb Washington (left), presented Sarah-Ann Shaw with The Open Door Award on May 8, 2016.

Black History Now

Sarah-Ann Shaw left ‘big shoes to fill’ for Boston journalists, advocates

At WBZ, Shaw told some of Boston's biggest stories for more than 30 years.

See more coverage of Black History Month

Opinion

President Biden in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Feb. 9, in Washington, following the release of a special prosecutor's report on Thursday, Feb. 8, that cleared Biden of criminal charges. The counsel made repeated negative references to the 81-year-old president's age and memory that echo broader concerns raised by voters in both parties.

If we want to talk about old age, let’s really talk about old age

A special counsel’s unnecessary asides about Biden’s memory amplify our own fears about the ravages of aging.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Migrants’ next stop: Why not Wellesley?

Let’s stop treating pot like heroin

IDEAS | MICHELINE MAYNARD

Unions are winning battles but still could lose the war

IDEAS | DANIEL G. STEGER

They filmed ‘American Fiction’ in my house. Can I get an Oscar?

More recent News

In Milton, the vote will go on. Tomorrow. Here’s what to know about pivotal housing referendum.

Regardless of which side residents choose on Wednesday, the vote will reverberate throughout Eastern Massachusetts.

St. Mary’s Home for Children interim CEO calls report ‘beyond disturbing’ as he focuses on improving staffing, conditions

“Those things should have never happened,” Charles Montorio-Archer told the Globe in a recent interview. “There is no denying what’s in the report. There’s only, ‘How do we respond to it?’”

Biden says Trump sowing doubts about US commitment to NATO is ‘un-American’

President Joe Biden on Tuesday said Donald Trump’s comments calling into question the U.S. commitment to defend its NATO allies from attack were “dangerous” and “un-American”.

Israel and Hamas are making progress in cease-fire and hostage release talks, officials say

A senior Egyptian official said mediators have achieved “relatively significant” progress ahead of a meeting Tuesday in Cairo of representatives from Qatar, the United States, and Israel.

Ban on social emotional learning voted down by N.H. House panel

While the bill will still go before the full New Hampshire House, Tuesday’s 19-1 vote shows strong bipartisan disapproval of the proposal to prohibit public schools from incorporating the popular behavioral management program

Vantage Travel is back — or, at least, its name is

Vantage Explorations, owned by a company based in Australia, is embracing its Vantage Travel roots to sell tours around the world, while conspicuously ignoring the former company's bankruptcy and the $100 million it failed to refund to customers.

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Make-up mirrors, pin-ups, mansplaining: Why women still find car buying miserable

Other industries have improved. Why are car dealers stuck in the 1950s?

Temporary overflow shelter opening near Mass. and Cass, Wu says
The center, located on Atkinson Street, is a “daytime space for individuals navigating homelessness and substance use” near Mass. and Cass., the center of the region’s homelessness and substance abuse crises, according to the city.

Kennedy ad highlights an increased outsourcing of campaigns to shadowy outside groups
A pro-Robert F. Kennedy Jr. PAC's expenditure of millions of dollars to support Kennedy’s efforts to get on the November ballot has attracted the attention of his opponents, who have appealed to the Federal Election Commission.

He says he got his CDL without taking the exam. Lawsuit ties State Police trooper to worker at Brockton RMV center.
The court filings mark the first time a Registry worker has been implicated in the alleged scheme in which four current and former Massachusetts state troopers are accused of falsifying results on commercial driver’s license tests.

Culture & Lifestyle

The 11th annual Levitate Music and Arts Festival returns July 5-7 to the Marshfield Fairgrounds.

Mt. Joy, Lake Street Dive, and a reunited Sublime to headline Marshfield’s Levitate Festival

Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magime in Tran Anh Hung's "The Taste of Things."

‘The Taste of Things’: Juliette Binoche has never been better

Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., founding director of the Black Film Project, and Jacqueline Glover, executive director.

Harvard’s Black Film Project will spotlight Black history and culture through documentary, narrative stories

“If Love Could Kill” recounts the clinically true stories of several women who’ve come through Anna Motz’s forensic psychology practice.

Anna Motz debunks myths about female abusers and violent offenders in ‘If Love Could Kill’

Special Projects

Ashfield, MA 06/13//2023, At Sanderson Academy, books in a fourth-grade classroom.

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Lost in a World of Words

Learning to read is the greatest gift a school can give a child. And yet, in Massachusetts, outmoded teaching methods leave thousands of students struggling to gain this critical skill.

Beyond the Gilded Gate

People in and around Boston are being challenged, in ways never before, to address the region's unprecedented housing crisis.

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Nightmare in Mission Hill

The story of how a murder in Mission Hill — the Carol Stuart shooting — terrorized and wounded a community of innocent people.

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.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

Police tape blocked off a Waffle House restaurant in Nashville, Tenn., after a gunman opened fire at the restaurant on April 22, 2018.

IDEAS | IEVA JUSIONYTE

A scholar of gun policy says his field has gotten it wrong

NYPD officers clashed with protesters demonstrating around Columbia University, Feb. 2 in New York City. Multiple arrests were made.

How universities can restore free speech and constructive conversations

The Al-Maqoussi towers area on Feb. 3, in the aftermath of Israeli bombardment on Gaza City.

What do Palestinians want?

A statue of Ronald Reagan at his presidential library in Simi Valley, Calif.

I was a young Republican. Now I want nothing to do with either party.

FanDuel, DraftKings, and other online gambling apps are displayed on a phone.

The hidden toll of sports gambling

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU

Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

Kelvin Kiptum, marathon world record holder, dies at 24

Kelvin Kiptum shattered the world record in the men’s marathon last year, finishing tantalizingly close to the mythical and once unfathomable two-hour barrier.

Ian Freeman agrees to $3.5M restitution order in bitcoin money laundering case

Even as the New Hampshire libertarian activist appeals his conviction, the negotiated deal means 29 victims will get paid. The government already has the cash in-hand.

Nor’easter brings heavy snow, flooding to parts of Southern New England. Here’s how the storm unfolded.

The southeastern part of the state and Cape Cod saw the worst of the storm in Massachusetts, along with Connecticut, and Rhode Island where more than a foot of snow fell in some areas.

As snowstorm winds down, R.I. coastal flooding expected; tractor-trailer ban lifted

Schools, state offices, and city buildings in Providence closed as snow fell in Rhode Island. A winter storm warning is in effect for parts of Rhode Island until 7 p.m. Follow along for updates.

Sports

Honored on senior night, Andover captain Rose Memmolo sets the tone for the Andover girls' hockey team with a can-do, positive attitude despite her daily challenge of Type 1 diabetes.

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS' NOTEBOOK

Andover girls’ hockey captain Rose Memmolo has never let diabetes get her off her game(s)

A Type I diabetic, the senior manages the realities of a lifelong disease while still playing the sports she loves: hockey and field hockey.

According to sources, the Red Sox have remained in discussions with teams about the possibility of dealing closer Kenley Jansen, their lone All-Star in 2023.

As spring training begins, will the Red Sox make more changes?

Chief baseball officer Craig Breslow, in reviewing his moves, acknowledged that the shape of the club isn’t the one he envisioned.

Only his feet were left after thieves severed a statue of Jackie Robinson at the ankles at a youth baseball complex in Kansas.

Arrest made in theft of Jackie Robinson statue; no evidence it was a ‘hate-motivated’ crime

According to Wichita police Lt. Aaron Moses, the intent was to sell the metal for scrap. Police said it was “only the first arrest” and there are more to come.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Bill O’Brien fills out his Boston College coaching staff by hiring from Patriots, Florida, and United Football League

2024 Super Bowl was the most-watched program ever in the United States

Red Sox notebook

You can expect most of Masataka Yoshida’s at-bats to be at DH this season

Business

Tripadvisor could be takeover bait

The Needham-based online travel firm could soon be weighing an acquisition offer, the company disclosed this week without naming the potential buyer.

‘It’s sad that makes me a villain’: Longtime Newton councilor got voted out after leading zoning rewrite

The state’s MBTA communities law can put local officials in a difficult spot, drafting zoning laws their communities oppose. Deborah Crossley learned that the hard way.

Fidelity Charitable distributes record-setting $11.8 billion to nonprofits in 2023

OpenAI CEO warns that ‘societal misalignments’ could make artificial intelligence dangerous

magazine

‘God, I wish I hadn’t seen that’: On the trail of Bigfoot in the Berkshires

On Valentine's Day, LEGO Discovery Center Boston’s will host a night just for grown-ups.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, Feb. 12-Feb. 18

The Parenting Issue

When my daughter was born, I became the most scared dad there ever was

The Parenting Issue

More women than ever are freezing their eggs. But there’s a problem.

metro

Waves crash over the seawall near Surfside Road in Scituate.

High tides, flooding shut down roads in Mass. during Tuesday’s storm

Why are New England fishers declining?

‘We are not the MBTA we were in 2015′: T says it was ready for big snowstorm that never came

sports

William Reed of Somerville, Mass., and Justin Lagassey of Plymouth, N.H., at the event's conclusion on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024.

Last Skier Standing endurance competition ends with a new record

The air is heavy with uncertainty as Alex Cora enters the final year of his Red Sox contract

EMass girls’ hockey: St. Mary’s surges to top spot in Globe Top 20

business

Amazon is delivering packages around the Boston area using a fleet of Rivian-made, electric delivery vans based in a warehouse in Bellingham. (Aaron Pressman)

Where do all those Amazon EV delivery vans recharge?

This Valentine’s Day, can neighbors end their fight over affordable housing in Dorchester?

In Milton, the vote will go on. Tomorrow. Here’s what to know about pivotal housing referendum.

politics

The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave Jack Smith, the special counsel prosecuting former president Donald J. Trump, a week to respond to Trump’s emergency application asking the justices to halt an appeals court’s ruling that rejected his claim that he is absolutely immune from criminal charges.

Supreme Court gives prosecutors a week to respond in Trump immunity case

On Capitol Hill, Republicans use bigoted attacks against political foes

Prevailing on Ukraine funding, McConnell took political hits

Nation

Independent Commission executive director Anne Jordan (rear left) and commission investigator Brian MacMaster (right) listened during a commission hearing investigating the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, Thursday.

Maine mass shooting commission gets subpoena power

Race to succeed George Santos in Congress reaches stormy climax in New York’s suburbs

Mental health emerges as a dividing line in abortion rights initiatives planned for state ballots

World

This picture taken from Rafah shows smoke billowing following Israeli bombardments over Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on February 13, 2024.

Israel and Hamas are making progress in cease-fire and hostage release talks, officials say

Israel and Hamas are making progress in cease-fire and hostage release talks, officials say

Millions of Indonesians vote for a new president in one of the world’s largest elections

opinion

Steve Jesi visited his daughter's grave on Jan. 25 in Peabody. In 2015, Jesi lost his 33-year-old daughter, Stephenie Jesi, to a heroin overdose.

Communities should use funds from the opioid settlement quickly but also wisely

What do Palestinians want?

A scholar of gun policy says his field has gotten it wrong

lifestyle

From left: Taylor Swift kissed Travis Kelce after the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl on Sunday night.

Taylor Swift celebrates Travis Kelce Super Bowl win with star-studded entourage

Photos: See Robert Kraft, Reba McEntire, Jay-Z, and more stars at Super Bowl LVIII

Should I know it’s love by three months? Six?

food & dining

A feast at the newly reopened La Ventana in Burlington.

Some of Greater Boston’s best food is in . . . Burlington?

Shannon McNeil loves the South Street Diner and Southie, but maybe not Shawn Mendes

Where to eat for Valentine’s Day without a reservation

travel

Lena Onalik, the first Inuit archeologist for the Nunatsiavut Government’s Department of Language, Culture, and Tourism, grew up with her grandparents in Makkovik. She works to preserve and record culturally important Inuit sites on the Labrador Coast, and to promote and protect Inuit culture and language.

We wanted northern lights and glacial fjords. We got so much more.

Not into roller coasters at sea with 5,000 other passengers? Consider an expedition voyage.

Cruise-curious? Your cruise questions answered.

Arts

"Sumojazz (6)" (left) and Sumojazz (13)" are both 2011 works by James Luna.

With a small show of prints by Indigenous artists, the MFA looks to the future

A pair of ambitious photo exhibits look at sexuality and race in Boston during the ’70s

MFA agrees to return sacred relics to Korea

Books

Lucy Sante, author of a new memoir of transition, "I Heard Her Call My Name."

A divided life finally made whole in ‘I Heard Her Call My Name,’ Lucy Sante’s memoir of transition

Paul Alexander captures the tragic beauty, survival instincts of Billie Holiday in ‘Bitter Crop’

Beyond ‘Bridgerton,’ there’s a whole universe of historical romance classics ripe for the screen. Here are six of our favorites.

Movies

From left: Celeste O’Connor, Dakota Johnson, Isabela Merced, and Sydney Sweeney in "Madame Web."

‘Madame Web’ spins a convoluted superhero story

‘The Taste of Things’: Juliette Binoche has never been better

Snuggle up this snow day and watch the 2024 Oscar nominees for best picture

Television

Jon Stewart, shown at the Stand Up For Heroes Benefit in New York in November, returned to the anchor desk of "The Daily Show" Monday night for the first time since his departure in 2016.

Jon Stewart is back at ‘The Daily Show,’ and he doesn’t spare Joe Biden

12 shows to binge on a snow day

Want to dress and eat like a ‘DunKing’? The tracksuits are sold out.

music

Squid will play the Paradise Wednesday night.

On ‘O Monolith’ and on tour, new inflections in Squid’s ever-shifting sound

Mt. Joy, Lake Street Dive, and a reunited Sublime to headline Marshfield’s Levitate Festival

Beyoncé announces ‘Act II’ will arrive in March. Watch videos of her two new country tracks.

Theater/Dance

A scene from the 7 Fingers' "Duel Reality," now at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre through Feb. 18.

Wonders never cease with the 7 Fingers

In ‘John Proctor Is the Villain,’ a high school is a #MeToo crucible

It’s the humans who are in need of repair in ‘Machine Learning’

Health

Our Lady of Fatima Hospital in North Providence, R.I.

Prospect Medical Holdings wants to sell its 2 R.I.-based hospitals. Here’s what a proposed deal could look like, executives say.

Timeline: Proposed sale of Rhode Island hospitals preceded by years of regulatory fights, funding problems

Incel culture and its rise in the modern dating world

Obituaries

Kelvin Kiptum of Kenya celebrated his Chicago Marathon world record victory in Chicago's Grant Park on Oct. 8, 2023

Kelvin Kiptum, marathon world record holder, dies at 24

Cecilia Gentili, transgender activist, performer, and author, dies at 52

Bob Edwards, radio host who built NPR’s ‘Morning Edition,’ dies at 76