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 ...

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.

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

An engine made by Cambridge’s Blake & Knowles Foundry in 1916. (Photo: Digital Commonwealth) This week, as Cambridge joins the rest of the country in marking the Labor Day holiday, we also mark the ...

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

Fall is the best moviegoing time of the year. In anticipation of garnering year-end award recognition, Hollywood puts its best foot forward, presenting many of its most ambitious, challenging and ...

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 ...

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.

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

Two years ago, labor organizer Evan MacKay came within 41 votes of unseating state rep Marjorie Decker. Decker and her ...