The difference between refundable and nonrefundable tax credits matters. You may benefit from filing a return even if your income is low enough to make filing seem unnecessary.

After leaving Dec. 31, the Ward 2 city councilor said, he intends to keep working on community issues, as an activist rather ...

Smart glasses and other wearable technologies were banned from Cambridge Public Schools by a policy order passed Tuesday by ...

Graham & Parks principal Kathleen Smith told staff at a June meeting that this will be her final year, said staff who ...

New MIT professor Thomas Rose has died from injuries sustained in an Aug. 21 collision at Memorial Drive and Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge.

A Harvard shuttle travels Cambridge’s Baldwin neighborhood in January. (Photo: Marc Levy) The Independent’s sixth locally themed puzzle – they come every other Saturday courtesy of local creator ...

Retiring state senator Pat Jehlen endorsed a different candidate than Somerville went for in a Democratic primary: Erika Uyterhoeven.

Though made at Somerville’s Forge, four frozen treat flavors are available only from a small freezer by the door of Cambridge’s Curio Spice shop.

Two years ago, labor organizer Evan MacKay came within 41 votes of unseating state rep Marjorie Decker. Decker and her supporters went all out to prevent a repeat.

Voters in Somerville went for Will Mbah in the Democratic primary to fill the state representative seat held by Christine Barber since 2015, but Medford voters will weigh in too.

Find more of Rusty Epstein’s cartoons here. Rusty Epstein’s work has been published in the New Yorker, the Times Luxury, and Private Eye, among others, and is wildly popular with women over 65 who ...