Eight Republican presidential contenders will hit the stage at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library today, and most of the spotlight and pressure will be focused on the newest face in the race: Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

IN the face of this economic crisis, the federal government has all but declared unilateral disarmament. The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, has vowed to keep real interest rates near zero, but even at that level few are borrowing. Over at the White House and on Capitol Hill, the pursuit of deficit reduction has […]

Through 2007, Massachusetts showed the fastest progress of any state on the national assessment (NAEP) tests. What was most impressive is that black and Hispanic students showed even more progress on the national assessments than did their white peers.

Every summer Martha’s Vineyard Hospital takes on a new face -€” or actually many – with extra nursing staff hired to help handle an increase in medical care required by an influx of visitors and seasonal residents. Among those new faces are nursing students from a variety of colleges and universities, who work as certified […]

To encourage job growth, Mayor Thomas M. Menino today will propose financial incentives for hospitals, universities, and other nonprofits to hire out-of-work Boston residents.

Infinity is a subtle concept.

Forget Angry Birds. There’s a new iPhone application that provides hours of entertainment. Released last week, iSpeech Obama allows you to type in any phrase you want and the president’s voice will repeat it back to you.

The curtain is about to come down on a half-century of service to Northeastern University when legendary sports information director Jack Grinold hangs up his pencil and stat sheet later this month. So, when friends and associates gather on Saturday night at Matthews Arena to send Grinold off in a stylish manner befitting the respect […]

Northeastern University has named a new dean of the Bouve College of Health Sciences. Dr. Terry Fulmer, a specialist in geriatrics and founding dean of the College of Nursing at New York University, where she has been a faculty member since 1995, will assume the post Oct. 1. She will replace founding dean Stephen Zoloth.

A drilling contractor for the state will bore 100 feet into the ground near South Station next month in an attempt to determine the size, cause, and best way to fill a void that has formed below one of the Big Dig tunnels, the state’s highway administrator said yesterday.

A Superior Court judge ruled yesterday that the man who won a $152 million lawsuit last year against a tobacco company for causing the death of his mother – by giving her free cigarettes when she was just a child – can collect the money with interest retroactive to 2004, the year the case was […]

On a cold, gloomy day in February of last year, a group of protesters showed up at the U.S. attorney’s office here and demanded to see a prosecutor who had brought a terrorism case against a young Muslim man.