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‘Tranq’ and other drugs are causing harder-to-revive overdoses across Mass.
Polysubstance use is jeopardizing life-saving efforts for drug overdose victims.

Steward does not provide all financial documents sought by Governor Healey
An aide to Governor Healey said that financial documents are necessary as state officials evaluate how Steward got into such a precarious financial condition.

As a hospital system crashes, Steward’s CEO rises above it all Trendlines: How can Healey stop the Steward crisis from spreading? Remember the lesson of Lehman Bros.

Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden is facing two ethics probes from separate state entities
The race between Hayden and Ricardo Arroyo was defined by acrimony and controversy as they vied to succeed Rachael Rollins.

‘Some cars have a shelf life of days’: Falling prices give a jolt to used EV market
Inventories of used EVs are rising and prices are falling, while many consumers are taking advantage of federal and state subsidies.

Chad Finn | Sports Media

After some concern, entire WEEI Red Sox broadcast team will return for this season
Will Flemming, whose status was cause for such suspense, will call approximately 140 games in his sixth season as part of the radio broadcast team.

How did Nikki Haley’s South Carolina become Trump country? Ask the Tea Party.
Donald Trump's expected win in the South Carolina primary will highlight how he has absorbed the Tea Party movement into his own political effort.

Jury convicts Southern California socialite in 2020 hit-and-run deaths of two young brothers

Florida surgeon general defies science amid measles outbreak

Netflix subscribers have the option to choose a cheaper, ad-supported tier that the streamer introduced in 2022.

MATTHEW GILBERT

The days of ad-free TV streaming are over, and viewers are paying the price

You may be paying for a streaming service subscription, but that no longer means you aren’t going to see commercials.

What we know about the viral online feud involving a North End restaurant owner and the New Yorker who canceled his reservation
A post by a user on X over a cancellation fee dispute with the owner of Table Restaurant has been viewed millions of times.

Dave Epstein

A spectacular total solar eclipse will be on full display this April in Northern New England
The path of totality during this interesting event on April 8 will cut a path from Texas to parts of northern Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. In Southern New England, 90 percent of the sun will be covered.

Forecast: We'll see plenty of sunshine during this weekend with blustery late-winter chill

Like most New England ski areas, Ski Bradford is buzzing this week during February school vacation, typically the biggest week of the ski season in New England.

The ski hill that is ‘the biggest baby sitter on the North Shore’

For generations, Ski Bradford has been a warm and wild rite of passage for children.

Dawn at the ramparts of Antibes, France.

Breathless in the South of France

An off-season zip trip across the south of France unveils its vast beauty and treasures, minus the crowds. You should plan on spending seven days to take it all in. We had three. Here's how we spent them.

Christian Vázquez signed a three-year, $30 million deal with the Twins before last season and hit .223 with six homers and a .598 OPS.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

Teammates didn’t like it when Christian Vázquez was dealt to the Astros in 2022, but time has shown the Red Sox won the trade

Nike’s new MLB uniforms haven’t been a seamless fit with some players

Holders of the No. 1 overall draft pick, the Bears are the linchpin of the offseason, since everyone wants that pick and the ability to draft Southern Cal quarterback Caleb Williams.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Previewing the top story lines of the NFL offseason

The Chiefs’ Super Bowl win is just two weeks old, but the NFL is already on to 2024.

Bill Belichick is pursuing TV opportunities, according to his son Steve Belichick

In 2018, the Red Sox beat the Dodgers for their fourth World Series title in 14 years.

In places such as Boston, it’s important to enjoy the championship ride, because you never know when it will end

It wasn’t so long ago that titles around here felt inevitable.

Opinion

Afghan children from the Niazy and Kabir families came home from school in Harvard on Feb. 16. The two families, made up of four adults and 16 children, have been living free in the Bromfield House, a property owned by the town of Harvard, for roughly the past two years.

MARCELA GARCÍA

How the town of Harvard embraced Afghan refugees

Two families have lived in a historic house owned by the town of Harvard for $1 a month. That’s been possible thanks to the generosity of the town and a group of volunteers.

After Milton’s MBTA housing defeat, the way forward is with persuasion, not mandates

Blame Elizabeth Warren and the FTC for iRobot layoffs

Lawrence K. Altman

I’ve reported on the health of every president since Reagan. Here’s what I think about Biden and Trump.

Protest outside Healey’s home shows need for governor’s residence

More recent News

8 people killed in head-on crash in California farming region, police say
Police say seven farmworkers traveling in a van and the driver of a pickup truck were killed Friday in a head-on crash in a farming area in central California.

Former NRA chief Wayne LaPierre misspent gun rights group’s money, owes more than $4M, jury finds
The National Rifle Association and its longtime former leader have been found liable in a lawsuit centered on the organization’s lavish spending.

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘He likes music and singing karaoke with friends’
Will a cinematographer and his date have a Hollywood ending?

Black History Now

‘Fighting the good fight for decades’: Retired judge Julian Houston has long pushed to help youth
Julian Houston was a son of the South who went on to have a career as prominent jurist and community activist in Boston.

After Southwick school students hold online slave auction, principal apologizes; mother of victim says ‘it’s not enough’
Southwick Regional School Principal Serena Shorter apologized and said she would be addressing students and staff about the incident on Monday.

On the Block

For sale: Homes that are 1,000 square feet
These two properties offer roughly the same amount of livable space but in different configurations.

Mixing materials is key to creating a warm feel in Stow living room

Chelsea man arrested for fatal hit-and-run near Encore Boston Harbor casino in December
Jaydon A. Colon, 22, was arrested on Carter Street in Chelsea at about 7:45 a.m. Friday on a warrant charging him with vehicular homicide, manslaughter while under the influence and other driving offenses for the crash that occurred around 3 a.m. on Dec. 18 near Dexter and Alford streets in Charlestown.

Aidan Kearney, the blogger known as ‘Turtleboy,’ indicted on new charges, released from jail

Kearney, who has written extensively about the Karen Read murder case, was accused of witness intimidation and illegal recording, court records show.

Two stabbed in Dorchester, one critically injured, police say
A man suffered life-threatening injuries in a stabbing at 44 Floyd St., where police responded around 5:30 p.m. Friday. A woman was also stabbed and taken to a hospital, police said.

Recommended reads

Kevin and Carine Berner told Braintree police that local boys took and circulated a nude photo of their 12-year-old son. They've been on a journey since, fighting for accountability for a year and a half.

A father did everything he could to protect his son. Until he couldn’t.

Kevin Berner told Braintree police that a nude photo of his 12-year-old son was circulating among other schoolchildren. Berner and his wife have been on a journey since, fighting for accountability.

‘He’s not out of the woods’: MSPCA says cat is recovering from full-body burns
The 10-month-old male cat, whom staff at MSPCA-Angell call "Dusty," was found in a parking lot of a supermarket in Roslindale on Feb. 11, officials said Friday.

The Tooth Fairy is paying kids less for teeth nationwide, but kids in the Northeast get more 🧚
According to an annual poll from Delta Dental, the average price paid by the Tooth Fairy for a baby tooth has dropped for the first time in five years, to $5.84.

If you were at Woodstock, here’s a chance to share your story
Representatives from the Museum at Bethel Woods are traveling the country to record oral histories from Woodstock attendees. They'll be in Boston March 11-12 to meet locals who'd like to share their experiences.

Culture & Lifestyle

Boston Ballet in Mikko Nissinen's "Raymonda"

Boston Ballet dances up a storm in ‘Winter Experience’

A show at the Huntington that’s as interactive as it gets forced me to face my fears

Host Jonathon Gates gets a big laugh from an audience member at the Feb. 14 Black Comedy Explosion show, its first at the Carver Den in Dorchester.

At the Black Comedy Explosion, bursts of talent and bang for your buck

Benedict Cumberbatch in "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar," directed by Wes Anderson.

Which live-action short will take home the Academy Award? Five brief reviews to help you win the Oscars pool

Special Projects

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

Suzanne Kreiter\Globe staff

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.

stuart landing page illustration

Nightmare in Mission Hill

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

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

Republican presidential candidate and former UN ambassador Nikki Haley spoke during a campaign event at The George Hotel, Feb. 22, in Georgetown, S.C.

Why ‘favorite daughter’ Nikki Haley won’t win South Carolina

Recently retired professor Harvey Mansfield in his Cambridge home. He taught at Harvard from 1962 until last year. "We need a return to debate," he says. "Harvard doesn’t debate. It emotes.”

IDEAS | CAREY GOLDBERG

Will Harvard ever get another professor like Harvey Mansfield?

Milton residents arrived at the Cunningham Park Community Center on Feb. 14 to vote on a referendum to reject a zoning plan that would have brought the town in compliance with the MBTA Communities Act. The "no" voters succeeded, prompting the state to cut off some grants to the town amid the possibility of further legal action.

What’s the matter with Milton?

Roomba vacuums by iRobot were displayed at a Best Buy store on Jan. 19, in San Rafael, Calif.

Blame Elizabeth Warren and the FTC for iRobot layoffs

Wild horses endure a summer dust storm in golden light. Onaqui Mountains Herd Management Area, Rush Valley, Utah, 2021.

IDEAS | GRETCHEN CLARK

Wild horses dragged me away

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU

Ernesto Barbieri and Jess Ruliffson

When accidents happen: True stories from an ICU nurse

Metro

Plenty of sunshine for the weekend with blustery late winter chill

The wind will make it feel like it’s in the teens and 20s.

A spectacular total solar eclipse will be on full display this April in Northern New England

The path of totality during this interesting event on April 8 will cut a path from Texas to parts of northern Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. In Southern New England, 90 percent of the sun will be covered.

‘Tranq’ and other drugs are causing harder-to-revive overdoses across Mass.

Polysubstance use is jeopardizing life-saving efforts for drug overdose victims.

‘He’s not out of the woods’: MSPCA says cat is recovering from full-body burns

The 10-month-old male cat, whom staff at MSPCA-Angell call "Dusty," was found in a parking lot of a supermarket in Roslindale on Feb. 11, officials said Friday.

Sports

Caroline Hartnett (15) and her Notre Dame Academy-Hingham teammates earned the top seed in Division 1.

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS' HOCKEY

MIAA girls’ hockey tournament: Here are the seedings and pairings

Notre Dame Academy (Hingham) and Duxbury earned the top seeds in the Division 1 (32 teams) and Division 2 brackets (32 teams), respectively.

Joe Castiglione (left) and Will Flemming (right) will again be the primary voices of the Red Sox broadcast team on WEEI.

Chad Finn | Sports Media

After some concern, entire WEEI Red Sox broadcast team will return for this season

Will Flemming, whose status was cause for such suspense, will call approximately 140 games in his sixth season as part of the radio broadcast team.

Fans who watched the 3-point competition between Stephen Curry and Sabrina Ionescu were able to see how much they have in common rather than what separates them.

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

Thankfully, Stephen Curry and Sabrina Ionescu provided a bright spot for NBA All-Star Weekend

Curry and Ionescu understood the impact their competition could have on women’s basketball.

Peter Abraham | Sunday baseball notes

Teammates didn’t like it when Christian Vázquez was dealt to the Astros in 2022, but time has shown the Red Sox won the trade

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Previewing the top story lines of the NFL offseason

Jim McBride | Sunday hockey notes

The Bruins have changed head coaches numerous times over the last 20 years, but the constant has been Bob Essensa

Business

Houthi attack on ship led to ‘environmental disaster,’ US says

The missile attack by Houthi militants on a ship carrying a cargo of fertilizer has led to an “environmental disaster” in the Red Sea, US Central Command said Friday evening.

Steward does not provide all financial documents sought by Governor Healey

An aide to Governor Healey said that financial documents are necessary as state officials evaluate how Steward got into such a precarious financial condition.

UnitedHealth cyberattack cripples pharmacies’ and hospitals’ ability to process insurance claims

Could a New York private equity firm be hunting Tripadvisor?

magazine

Richard Evans Schultes in the Cerro Campana mountains in Colombia, in June 1943.

The quest for psychedelics in the Amazon would push a Harvard botanist to his limits

Gut health explained: 5 things to know for a better microbiome

This week's daters: Mike and Andrea

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘He likes music and singing karaoke with friends’

Life, death, and a houseplant: Mourning my mom through her purple shamrock

metro

Aidan Kearney looked to the gallery as his bail was revoked in December.

Aidan Kearney, the blogger known as ‘Turtleboy,’ indicted on new charges, released from jail

Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden is facing two ethics probes from separate state entities

President Biden announces more than 500 sanctions on Russia over Alexei Navalny's death, Ukraine war

sports

Jayson Tatum scored 25 points in the Celtics' win against the Bulls on Thursday.

Celtics at Knicks: Boston takes on New York in a primetime matchup

Bruins at Canucks: Boston and Vancouver meet again as the NHL’s leaders

In places such as Boston, it’s important to enjoy the championship ride, because you never know when it will end

business

Exposure to air pollution from fine particulate matter has been linked to a host of health problems.

Air pollution tied to signs of Alzheimer’s in brain tissue, study finds

CVS executive criticizes ‘egregious’ pricing of obesity drugs

Mass. Clean Energy Center completes $30 million deal for Salem port land to help build wind farms

politics

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, and her husband Bo Tengberg, left, placed wreaths during a memorial ceremony at the Field of Mars at Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, Friday Feb. 23, 2024.

US and EU pile new sanctions on Russia for the Ukraine war’s 2nd anniversary and Navalny’s death

Trump says he strongly supports IVF after Alabama court ruling puts new pressure on Republicans

In Ukraine, Schumer challenges Speaker Johnson to ‘rise to the occasion’ and pass more US aid

Nation

Claude O’Donovan displayed a signed photo of former president Trump as his wife, Sunny, looked on, at their home in Aiken, S.C., on Feb. 5.

How did Nikki Haley’s South Carolina become Trump country? Ask the Tea Party.

Man guilty in Black transgender woman’s killing in 1st federal hate crime trial over gender identity

Moon lander is lying on its side but still functional, officials say

World

Smoke rises from an air defense base in the aftermath of an apparent Russian strike in Mariupol, Ukraine, on Feb. 24, 2022.

Zelensky hosts Western leaders in Kyiv as Ukraine marks 2 years since Russia’s full-scale invasion

An attack on a cargo ship in the Red Sea has caused a miles-long oil slick. Things could get worse

Brazil’s president accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, doubling down after earlier uproar

opinion

At summertime family get-togethers they would tour each other’s gardens, admiring peonies or lilies and bee balm or my father’s tomatoes, which he always planted in the flowerbeds because he said the tomatoes turned out sweeter that way.

My mother-in-law’s clivia and its descendants

Protest outside Healey’s home shows need for governor’s residence

Nikki Haley’s foreign policy is an antidote to the GOP’s isolationism

lifestyle

Andie Nelson, right, embraces Brian Jaskot, both of Virginia, after their race during the 25 meter hat competition during the winter swimming festival on frozen Lake Memphremagog on Feb. 23 in Newport, Vermont.

‘Totally cold’ is not too cold for winter swimmers competing in a frozen Vermont lake

Author Aime Alley Card on the challenges and triumphs of Olympic legends

Dating apps are tedious

food & dining

Outside Table Restaurant on Hanover Street in the North End.

What we know about the viral online feud involving a North End restaurant owner and the New Yorker who canceled his reservation

For Carla Hall, it’s been a bumpy climb to a ‘Top Chef’ life

A century-old company just bought Bayberry Beer Hall, a popular hang out in Providence

travel

The “Children of Whitney” statues are located throughout the Whitney Plantation Museum. They were created by artist Woodrow Nash.

Facing America’s traumatic history head-on through tourism

‘All major events happen around the table’: What it’s like to eat your way around Porto

An hour’s drive from Lisbon, along Portugal’s west coast, a whole lot of raw beauty

Arts

Mark Rothko, "The Bathers," 1934. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation Inc.

Rothko’s power takes shape on paper, at the National Gallery of Art

Roxbury Community College celebrates five decades with Golden Jubilee Gala

The Newport Historical Society goes deep on Black and Indigenous experiences

Books

Artwork by Ekua Holmes accompanies poems by Renée Watson.

Power of Black girlhood captured in poems, art; Amy Lowell’s 150th anniversary celebrated; and more

Local bestsellers for the week ended Feb. 18

Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid provide new narrative for Black freedom in Edda L. Fields-Black’s ‘Combee’

Movies

Seydou Sarr (left) and Moustapha Fall in "Io Capitano," directed by Matteo Garrone.

In ‘Io Capitano,’ two cousins on a treacherous quest

‘The Holdovers’ screenwriter David Hemingson drew on his New England prep school days for his Oscar-nominated script

Which live-action short will take home the Academy Award? Five brief reviews to help you win the Oscars pool

Television

From left: Nicholas Ralph, Samuel West, Rachel Shenton, Anna Madeley, and Callum Woodhouse, of "All Creatures Great and Small."

More renewal news: ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ gets two more seasons

The days of ad-free TV streaming are over, and viewers are paying the price

For ‘Frasier,’ first comes reboot then comes renewal

music

Joe Cocker performs for hundreds of thousands attendees at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, N.Y., in August 1969.

If you were at Woodstock, here’s a chance to share your story

Beyoncé becomes first Black woman to claim top spot on Billboard’s country music chart

Beatles to get a Fab Four of biopics, with a movie each for Paul, John, George, and Ringo

Theater/Dance

Boston Ballet in Mikko Nissinen's "Raymonda"

Boston Ballet dances up a storm in ‘Winter Experience’

A show at the Huntington that’s as interactive as it gets forced me to face my fears

Ukraine’s Grand Kyiv Ballet brings its ‘Giselle’ to Boston

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

Alfred Grosser answers journalists' questions during an interview at his Paris office on November 3, 2009.

Alfred Grosser, champion of French-German reconciliation, dies at 99

Micheline Presle, French movie star of ‘Devil in the Flesh,’ dies at 101

Charles Stendig dies at 99; introduced fanciful furniture from abroad