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This mom leads young people on walks in the woods to prevent and heal from tragedy
In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, Boston’s inner city often sees a spike in violence during the summer, when many students are out of school and on the streets. But as special correspondent Tina Martin from PBS station…
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Why your summer getaway is staffed by foreign workers
At the tip of Cape Cod, the iconic summer getaway Provincetown has a small year-round population that swells when the weather gets nice, welcoming an estimated 4 to 5 million tourists every year. Businesses there depend on foreign workers willing…
Judge finds woman in Massachusetts suicide texting case guilty of manslaughter
Michelle Carter could face up to 20 years in prison for urging Conrad Roy III to take his own life.
Balancing privacy and community with design in cohousing
Architect Laura Fitch describes cohousing communities as "privacy within your home, and community at your doorstep."…
“Patriots Day” recounts the 2013 Boston marathon bombing and subsequent manhunt. Although the film is not a documentary, it aims to stay very true to the real events. For director Peter Berg, it’s his third film based on a story…
Off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, there’s not much cod left, but there’s plenty of dogfish. It’s a creature most Americans have never heard of, much less consumed. Instead, Americans are eating imported tuna, salmon and shrimp, in a…
Advocates for recreational marijuana believe "yes" votes in New England would perhaps build momentum toward ending federal prohibitions on the drug.
The states that currently have legalized marijuana in some form represent ongoing experiments in public health.
It started with a school project: Interview someone with moral courage. For Artemis Joukowsky, it became an enduring project to explore the life of his grandparents, Waitstill and Martha Sharp, who helped more than 2,000 people avoid deportation to Nazi…
