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1+ hour, 49+ min ago (36+ words) The Holly Festival is the biggest event of the year for the Natick High School speech and debate team. WBZ-TV's Paula Ebben explains. Natick High's Holly Festival is actually one of state's biggest debate events...

2+ hour, 46+ min ago (27+ words) Next Weather: WBZ morning forecast for December 18, 2025 Next Weather: WBZ morning forecast for December 18, 2025 Next Weather: WBZ morning forecast for December 18, 2025...

4+ hour, 3+ min ago (541+ words) WORCESTER " Although they are very much alive in the ECHL's North Division playoff race, they were " for one night anyway " the late Worcester Railers. They beat the Norfolk Admirals, 6-2, Wednesday and scored a goal in the closing seconds of all three periods. Worcester got one with two seconds left in the first, 10 seconds go to in the second and 2.1 ticks remaining in the game. Worcester's goals were all scored by different players. Ten different players had points. Parker Gahegan continued his wonderful play in net by stopping 31 shots. That included 16 of 17 in the second period when Norfolk desperately tried to get back into a game it trailed, 4-0, after 20 minutes. That's right. The Railers had a 4-0 lead going into the second period. That had happened only once before in team history, on Jan. 26, 2019 here, in what became a 5-1 victory over Adirondack....

5+ hour, 24+ min ago (444+ words) The state's highest court will take up the lawsuit over Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's White Stadium redevelopment, which the city is doing in partnership with Boston Legacy FC, a new professional women's soccer team. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court officially added the case to its docket Wednesday. It was previously before the state Appeals Court, after the plaintiffs in October moved to appeal an earlier judge's ruling against them in the case. The plaintiffs " the environmental nonprofit the Emerald Necklace Conservancy and more than 20 residents " celebrated the development Wednesday, as they continue their efforts to stop the project. The city also appeared to welcome the news. "Boston Public Schools student athletes have waited for decades for this state-of-the-art reconstruction," said city spokesperson Emma Pettit in a statement. "We are pleased that the SJC will make a final ruling while our…...

5+ hour, 30+ min ago (41+ words) Houston Rockets forward Kevin Durant is considered one of the greatest NBA players of all time and recently admitted that he was not aware his calf strain could result in a worse injury. Springfield Skateland suffers $80K loss in major theft...

8+ hour ago (787+ words) Public meetings this week look at proposed zoning for North Massachusetts Avenue, the City Council's inaugural meeting and mayoral election and changes for a stretch of Broadway next to the high school and Main Library. Attend Cambridge meetings from Dec. 18-Jan. 7 about electing a mayor and change on Broadway These are just some of the municipal meetings and civic events for the coming week. More are on the City Calendar and in the city's Open Meetings Portal. Marc Levy Attendees rise for a song at the start of the City Council inaugural in January 2024. Eleven stories on Mass. Ave. City Council, 5:30 p.m. Monday. A policy order amending a North Massachusetts Avenue zoning proposal that would cap residential buildings at 11 stories instead of 12 returns from last week, when discussion was stopped for one regular meeting by councillor Sumbul Siddiqui using her "charter…...

8+ hour, 7+ min ago (980+ words) Brian McGrory, chair of the Boston University department of journalism, will return to The Boston Globe as editor, a position he previously held from 2012 to early 2023, the paper announced Monday." The announcement comes just days after The Globe's current editor, Nancy Barnes, stepped down to "take a break from the daily firestorm of news, consider new challenges and tend to some personal issues," she wrote in an email to Globe staff. McGrory will be replaced temporarily as department chair by William McKeen, a BU journalism professor who served in the position from 2010 to 2023. "The CEO of the Globe reached out recently asking if I'd come back to help them through a sensitive time, and after a great deal of thought and internal debate, I've decided to do it," McGrory wrote in an email to his BU students. McGrory did not…...

8+ hour, 15+ min ago (752+ words) The MIT professor fatally shot by an unknown assailant at his home Monday night in Brookline is being remembered by the President of MIT as an "imaginative scholar, gifted administrator and enthusiastic mentor." "With great sadness, I write to share the tragic news that Professor Nuno Loureiro, director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, died early this morning," MIT president Sally Kornbluth wrote in a letter to the MIT community Tuesday. "In the face of this shocking loss, our hearts go out to his wife and their family and to his many devoted students, friends and colleagues." Police have not yet arrested any suspects in connection with the shooting, which is being investigated as a homicide, according to the Norfolk District Attorney's office. Brookline residents placed candles and lights in their windows facing Gibbs Street Tuesday night in remembrance…...

8+ hour, 23+ min ago (11+ words) Eric Fisher has an updated weather forecast. Next Weather: WBZ Update...

8+ hour, 34+ min ago (42+ words) Police investigating the deadly shooting at Brown University are asking the public for additional surveillance video as they seek a person of interest. WBZ-TV's Logan Hall reports. Brown University shooting investigators seeking additional video Brown University shooting investigators seeking additional video...