3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (411+ words) Two months since a historic nurses strike at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, hospital officials and the nurses’ union remain far from a deal. Negotiations for a new contract are at a standstill, and the nurses' union is considering another strike....

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (196+ words) Lila Nordstrom watched the first of the twin towers fall from a 10th-floor window at Stuyvesant High School 25 years ago on Sept. 11, 2001. But she says the real story for her classmates was Oct. 9, 27 days later, when the students became the…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (834+ words) Convenience stores, smoke shops and other retailers faced a tight turnaround last month to clear their shelves of kratom products, though some local officials say there's been little pushback so far on the statewide order that rendered inventories illegal. Kratom…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (450+ words) Five years ago, I was in the shower fighting an internal battle for my life. My son was 3 months old, the living joy of everyone in the house. But I could not feel that joy. My obstetrician offered to connect…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1182+ words) After a hung jury in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, legal experts are bracing for the possibility of a second trial should prosecutors again seek a murder conviction for the Duxbury mother accused of killing her three children in 2023. Several…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (48+ words) WBUR Host Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Loryn Brantz, author of a new children's book about handling little kids with big feelings called "I Am A Spicy Nugget." This segment airs on September 8, 2026....

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (102+ words) WBUR Parents across the country have been investigated or arrested for allowing their kids to play outside unsupervised, but research shows that overprotective parenting is linked to rising rates of anxiety and depression in children and teens. So how much…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (114+ words) WBUR On the 60th anniversary of the premiere of the iconic "Star Trek," 95-year-old actor William Shatner — aka Captain Kirk — talks to Here & Now's Robin Young about a his recent battle with stage 4 melanoma, which he fought alongside his 61-year-old daughter…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (515+ words) Murder-suicides, and homicides followed by the attempted suicides of the perpetrators, are more common than many people realize. But they're still unusual enough that the people left behind often feel alone in their very complex grief. In Massachusetts, more than…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1211+ words) A judge has declared a mistrial in the high-profile murder case of a Duxbury mother charged with strangling her three children in 2023. After nearly a week of deliberations and a last-ditch appeal from the defense to the Supreme Judicial Court,…...