The recent recession was milder in Massachusetts than first thought, as the unemployment rate peaked at a much lower level and the state shed fewer jobs than reported previously, according to revised data released yesterday by the state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.

With a month left in the season, it would have been easy for Northeastern to pack it in. The young Huskies had been besieged by injuries, which snowballed into a nine-game losing streak.

The US and Massachusetts economies are continuing their slow and steady march to recovery, a panel of executives and analysts said yesterday.

College acceptance letters should be hitting the mailboxes of anxious high school seniors any time now. Once students choose their institution of higher learning comes the hard part: paying for it.

Union membership in Massachusetts has fallen to its lowest level in three years.

Five teens in Central Florida were involved in unrelated shootings in February – some of them with deadly consequences.

Read the full article (PDF) Less than a generation ago, Northeastern University was chiefly a local institution, drawing nearly three-quarters of its students from the surrounding New England states. Its alumni, too, largely stayed in the region. Today, however, the university’s horizons are global. Nearly 10 percent of its undergraduates come from overseas, double the […]