New Salem plant a test case for Mass. climate law

The state’s approval of a plan to replace the coal-burning Salem Harbor Power Station with a gas-fueled plant is being challenged.

Mass. tax rule may deter high rollers

Gambling industry insiders are concerned that stringent reporting requirements will annoy slot players and destroy high-end play.

Doris Crary is a Scituate property owner who has been hit with increases in the insurance premiums on several of her homes, including the house with the widow’s walk.

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Congress scrambles as coastal residents rail at insurance rates

Lawmakers from coastal states are banding together to reverse increases in federal flood insurance premiums mandated by a bill passed in 2012.

Maureen Dahill ran for state Senate hoping to unite her neighborhood — and became a deeply divisive figure as a result.

Caught up between new, old Southie

Maureen Dahill’s story has become a symbol of the growing pains of a neighborhood struggling to maintain its traditions.

Can Super Bowl XLVIII possibly be bigger than Brady Manning XV? Doubt it.

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Dan Shaughnessy | AFC title game, 3 p.m., CBS

AFC Championship worthy of superlatives

The matchup between the Patriots and Broncos really is a bigger deal than all the other “pre” Super Bowl games.

“At first it was fun to get messed up, and then I had to,” said Samantha Emerson, a 26-year-old single mother of two.

Heroin gains a deadly foothold in Vermont

A flood of cheap heroin has thrust the state into an addiction crisis, a grave threat to younger residents and to a way of life.

TOM KEANE

None of your business

The first great wave of Internet applications got us all connected. The next wave will be to figure out how to reverse that.

ideas

How blind people see race

Osagie K. Obasogie set out to find out what “race” means to people who’ve never been able to see skin color.

Opinion

CARLO ROTELLA

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Gadget and car ads are the Tom Brady and Peyton Manning of untruth-in-advertising.

Travel

In Transit

Skiers and boarders skim a slope at Wachusett Mountain.

Riding the ski train to Wachusett

For $20 round trip from North Station, Wachusett Mountain has long been the metro skier’s go-to spot for a quick getaway.