Boston-area rents are hitting new heights – with the median price recently reaching $1,665 a month – as the vacancy rate falls to the lowest level in almost a decade, new data show.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel may want to update his summer reading list with an article by a law professor at the University of Chicago.

Gambling wasn’t a problem for Michael Burke until 1994, when a casino opened near his home. It was only then that he became a compulsive gambler, playing more often and losing larger sums of money.

Unless you’re a True Blood diehard, the idea of bleeding yourself intentionally shouldn’t really seem all that appealing. So imagine how most diabetics feel when they’re forced to prick their thumbs three times a day in the name of health. Well, soon they might not have to thanks to a nanosensor tattoo and… an iPhone?

Dave Leitao, a former head men’s basketball coach at three NCAA Division I schools, is expected to be named the next head coach of the Maine Red Claws on Thursday.

Hacking into an ex-girlfriend’€™s Facebook account to read private conversations. Sending threatening text messages that end with, “€œOr else.”€™ Flirting with an ex-boyfriend’€™s buddies on Twitter.

Scarborough right-hander Les Williams isn’€™t the only Blue Jays June draft under contract trying to make it all the way back to the city where he used to live.

While policymakers focus on encouraging small companies to hire more workers and jump-start the economy, business owners would do well to look at their existing workforce before taking on new employees.

Economic news these days is pretty bleak: job growth is anemic, retail sales are stagnating, and consumer confidence is plummeting. But the luxury goods market is another story. Today, the French company Hermes raised its 2011 revenue forecast by 12 to 14 percent on growing demand in the U.S. and China for its silk scarves […]

As Bay State temperatures have risen, year-over-year home sales have dropped, marking a fifth straight month of declines with 18 percent fewer deals in June, according to figures compiled for the Herald.

Massachusetts has lagged behind the rest of the country in job creation since the 2001 recession. While the rest of the country grew, we shrank.

Arlington author Gary Goshgarian has never had a near-death experience, but he has always been fascinated with the phenomenon as it relates to two basic mysteries of human existence: where we came from and where we go.