Alan Weisman has found an all-world cast of scientists, engineers and environmentalists who have dreamed big and worked passionately to repair some of the world’s wrecked ecosystems and also to ...

U.S. stocks are tumbling as worries about President Donald Trump’s trade war and his criticism of the Federal Reserve cause investors pull further from the United States. The S&P 500 ...

There were times during Simone Biles' nascent rise to stardom over a decade ago when she would arrive for practice and Aimee Boorman could sense immediately what kind of day ...

Paul Revere rode down Boylston Street to proclaim“ the runners are coming” as the Boston Marathon helped celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War. Reenactors on horseback, accompanied ...

A sweeping project to redevelop the area of the Hillsdale Shopping Center has caused concern among some neighbors, citing ...

SamTrans is weighing its options on how to narrow a structural operating deficit over the next decade. The agency relies ...

As a Jewish child growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust and the McCarthy era, the son of a union leader, and as a ...

The text of the announcement of the death of Pope Francis, which was read Monday by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Vatican camerlengo, from the chapel of the Domus Santa Marta, ...

Four teenagers were killed in a solo-vehicle collision in unincorporated Marin County on Friday evening and two others were ...

Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons. But he upheld it in other areas, such as abortion and celibacy for ...

Land mines and other unexploded remnants of war continue to pose a deadly threat across Syria, causing widespread casualties and long-term harm.

As Big Tech kicks off its quarterly earnings season this week, the industry’s bellwether companies have been thrust into a cauldron of uncertainty and turmoil that they didn’t anticipate when ...