Northeastern University is launching a new center focused on training students and alumni to become entrepreneurs, made possible by a $5 million investment by alumnus and Clean Harbors, Inc. founder Alan S. McKim.

Massachusetts continued its long slog out of the recession in April, as employers added jobs for the fifth consecutive month and the state unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in more than three years.

Northeastern University has started a new center to train students and alumni to become entrepreneurs, according to an announcement on the university’s website.

Engineering students from Northeastern University waded into the ongoing controversy over heavy pedestrian traffic on the North End’s Hanover Street recently, proposing solutions that included replacing street parking with temporary sidewalk extensions each summer.

When Northeastern President Joseph Aoun visited this year’s Husky Startup Challenge, he said “the world is about innovation,” and that it needs to be fostered. “You need to start as early as possible,” he admitted and, today, Northeastern’s taking one big step toward making that happen.

Citizenship laws are in the news again. Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota acquired, and then quickly renounced, Swiss citizenship. Eduardo Saverin, a founder of Facebook who was born in Brazil and lives in Singapore, gave up his United States citizenship, perhaps to avoid American taxes. Anti-immigrant activists are claiming that the 14th Amendment does not bestow citizenship on […]

Call it the campaign cycle’s rite of spring: Politicians always seem to sprout up behind a university commencement lectern this time of year — but especially during presidential elections.

The early-morning slaughter of four Florida siblings at the hands of what authorities say was their mother is an “almost unheard of” case, crime experts said Wednesday.

The drive to revamp the discipline reporting system for doctors in Massachusetts continued this week on Beacon Hill, with the Senate approving a measure that would make that system more transparent.

Ever since the Sept. 11 attacks, airports have probably been the most heavily guarded sites when it comes to preventing terrorist attacks.

Just when you thought America’s megabanks were safe and sound, JPMorgan Chase disclosed that it had lost at least $2 billion in just six weeks. The loss was suffered on high-risk investments in a portfolio of complex financial instruments known as derivatives. Ironically, it was incurred by a trading group within the bank that was […]

One would not be too off the mark to suggest 6-foot-10 Cameron Buchan was the biggest recruit for the Northeastern University crew program in a long time. Pardon the pun, but the mammoth athlete backs up the adage that rowers are found wherever you find them.