The Salem Jazz and Soul Festival is a great outing for kids, and the African Festival of Boston presents lots of fun for all ...

Tour guide Zara Raezer from the Freedom Trail Foundation shares insight into the history of Boston Common, the oldest park in the United States.

The suspect is associated with a group that has taken credit for a number of acts of vandalism in Massachusetts, according to ...

Attached to the suspicious device were several disposable foam glow sticks, a Boston police spokesperson said. The post Police investigate after abandoned pressure cooker spotted on Boston Common ...

The star of the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's production of "As You Like It" is also a boat captain and lighthouse ...

Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn says he has seen enough, adding that the latest stabbing on the Common occurred as parents were walking their kids to school. A 4-year-old was also nearly assaulted ...

The device was described “as an electric pressure cooker with what appeared to be glow sticks attached to it,” police said. It was not dangerous.

Local News What to know about the Boston Common Christmas tree lighting The tree will be lit Thursday night. The Boston Common Tree Lighting ceremony on Dec, 3, 2015. Olivia Spinale / Boston.com ...

September 1919: Boston Common was a flashpoint during the city’s 1919 police strike. Members of the State Guard had to break up a “riot’’ that broke out near the Common’s Brewster Fountain.

Imagine, for a moment, a Boston Common with a beer garden, al fresco dining, bocce courts, an expanded modern playground, new shaded plazas, and a constantly updated slate of provocative public art.