Ready or not, Boston is ramping up for another building boom. There are at least five major residential projects under review at City Hall, including ones for Stuart Street, Copley Place, Chinatown, the Seaport District, and the Fenway. Together, these proposals would add up to 1,400 new apartments and condos over the next few years.

If surveys of Occupy Wall Street supporters conducted last fall still hold true, the crowds of protesters expected to turn out Tuesday forMay Day events across the country will most likely skew male, young, white, college educated, underpaid, and thoroughly disgusted with the American political system.

Diseases that strike different parts of the body—and that don’t seem to resemble each other at all—may actually have a lot in common.

With diplomas no longer guaranteeing full-time jobs for college students, unique post-graduate plans are popping up everywhere.

Northeastern student and Princeton native Justin Dowd has won a spot on one of the first space tourism trips scheduled for 2014.

For some students’ federal college loans, Uncle Sam might be ready to forgive and forget. The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 aims to erase the federal student loan debt of academia’s most dutiful borrowers — those who have already paid 10 percent of their discretionary income servicing their arrears over 10 years — and cap […]

Two days after a barrage of racist tweets followed a Bruins game, an annual rally against racism in downtown Boston took on stronger purpose.

The North End, a neighborhood within Boston, is the city’s little Italy. Filled with great restaurants, American historical sites, and bars and lounges frequented by celebrities. In the spring and summer months The North End is a major tourist attraction and this adds additional pedestrian traffic and vehicle traffic to the crowed narrow roads and sidewalks. […]

When she was 13, Amy Osborne welcomed a room full of guests into her home, distributing agendas and guiding a discussion about the importance of fundraising for the American Cancer Society.

It is a tiny school, with an enrollment the size of a modest elementary school. There is no campus, just a small office building. Its 400 part-time students are invisible here, attending classes at off-site facilities across the country.

Imagine the original job interview. The first one ever, back on the prehistoric savannahs of eastern Africa. It wouldn’t have been exactly like a modern job interview, because early humans had no resumes or Linked-In or letters of recommendation to guide them. There was very little in the way of personal or professional reputation to […]

Hate travels fast in the age of Twitter. No sooner had Joel Ward’s shot found the back of the net late Wednesday than racist rants began spewing on the Internet.