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Massachusetts Reviewing Sick, Vacation Time Policies At Colleges
The Department of Higher Education has launched a review of decades-old leave policies for top officials.
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The Department of Higher Education has launched a review of decades-old leave policies for top officials.
Students at Pembroke Community Middle School don't just play video games, they create them.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and his wife Livia announced they will be flash-funding all of the DonorsChoose.org classroom projects in Greater Boston.
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The Class of 2020 will find out if they've been accepted or not on March 14.
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The University of New Hampshire is hopping onto the craft beer industry by offering students the chance to minor in brewing to meet a growing workforce demand.
After seven suicides in two years, students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are looking for their own solutions to prevent more deaths.
About 86 percent of teachers earned a proficient rating in their performance reviews for the 2014-15 year.
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Mayor Marty Walsh is promising to look into allegations of racism at Boston's most elite exam school, Boston Latin.
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Catholic school students got a rare opportunity to ask Cardinal Sean O'Malley big questions about a changing world, one the archdiocese is adapting to.
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The Bay State is at the head of the class once again.
The family of a murdered Weymouth police officer shared years of heartbreak as his killer apologized in court Wednesday.
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A long-awaited upgrade is coming to the MBTA, as the "Tap to Pay" system is coming to buses and subways in the Boston area Thursday.
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A new study finds many women with breast cancer may be able to avoid undergoing a double mastectomy.
Lawmakers and nurses in Ayer rallied to voice their opposition to Steward Health Care's decision to close Nashoba Valley Medical Center.
Patriots defensive star Christian Barmore is out indefinitely with blood clots.
Dr. Mallika Marshall answers a viewer question about how long to keep a child home with COVID.
An advocacy group wants immediate changes at a state hospital for mental patients accused of crimes in Massachusetts.
The state of Massachusetts is taking action after WBZ-TV I-Team reports revealed that some nursing homes haven't paid their workers for weeks.
After the I-Team went to Blupoint Healthcare's Newton offices, workers got their paychecks. Days later, their banks said the checks were no good.
Blupoint Healthcare employees say their paychecks finally cleared at the bank.
An 84-year-old Navy veteran paid a shop thousands of dollars for a headstone. Two years later he still had nothing, until he reached out to WBZ's Call For Action.
The not-so-harsh adjective "weird" has emerged as an early and effective weapon for the Democrats.
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Research showed independents don't like extremism or partisanship.
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The Great Scott rock club is making a comeback after closing during the COVID pandemic.
Yankee Candle is laying off about 100 workers in Massachusetts amid a decline in the fragrance business.
Stop & Shop says it will be closing 32 stores this year and eight of them are in Massachusetts.
Thanks in part to an anonymous $5.2 million donation, the West Newton Cinema is likely to be saved from being demolished.
Bob's Stores, a discount clothing retailer with locations in Massachusetts and Connecticut, is going out of business.
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The Boston Red Sox beat the Seattle Mariners 3-2 Wednesday.
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An adult black bear and a cub became trapped inside a car in Winsted, Connecticut.
The ice cream trail map highlights Massachusetts shops that use locally produced dairy.
New photos show an endangered North Atlantic right whale that's named after Fenway Park alongside her calf.
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