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Amazing video shows a whale breaching in Boston Harbor on Monday.

A humpback whale was spotted breaching in Boston Harbor on Monday.

Boston’s famous Skinny House has sold for a nice fat price. The home in the city’s North End hit the market in August for $1.2 million, and the deal was closed Thursday for $1.25 million, according to Zillow. The home “received multiple offers and went under agreement for over list price in less than one week,” real estate agency CL…

Rescue teams have recovered a woman’s body from the Boston Harbor following an early morning boat crash, authorities confirmed.

John Little can hardly go a week without a reminder that he and other Native Americans often are viewed as relics of the past: the Indian maiden on the butter container at the grocery store, the kids’ teepees sold at popular retailers and the sports fans with their faces painted doing tomahawk chops at games. But he doesn’t hear widespread...

Tea will once again be thrown into Boston Harbor to mark the 245th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. Sunday is the anniversary of the protest during which colonists protesting taxation without representation threw British tea into Boston Harbor in what is considered a pivotal event that led to the American Revolution. The Old South Meeting House and the Boston...

George Bush was a man with a matchless resume — combat pilot, diplomat, vice president, then president of the United States — but great communicator was not on the list. That was Ronald Reagan. “Fluency in English is not something I’m often accused of,” he once said, demonstrating the point. Nor was he given to the grand designs he once...

Mariners are being told to be cautious after humpback whales have been spotted swimming around Boston Harbor.

The USS Constitution left the Charlestown Navy Yard Wednesday morning for its annual Fourth of July voyage after sitting out the last several years. Elsewhere in Boston, more celebrations of the nation’s independence happened.

The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating after a cruise vessel carrying 326 people hit six moored sailboats in Boston Harbor on Thursday morning.

Some New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day events in southern New England have been canceled because of frigid temperatures.

Flash flooding has been unfolding along the North Shore including Lynn, Revere, Peabody, East Boston, Winthrop, Quincy, Milton, and Salem, Massachusetts, with multiple reports of flooded roadways deemed impassable.

With summer whale watching season fast approaching, conservation advocates and government agencies who want to protect whales say a mobile app designed to help mariners steer clear of the animals is helping keep them alive.

Wisconsin congressman won’t join crowded field.