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

Some big changes are contemplated for America’s oldest park, and it will be Liza Meyer’s mission to make them happen.

It feels like things are really heating up this weekend. Some of Greater Boston’s most famous summer traditions are happening ...

Someone splattered white paint and sprayed black paint onto the front entrance of the Massachusetts State House Wednesday.

A vandal hit the front steps of the State House early Wednesday, splashing paint and spraying graffiti right in the heart ...

Police say paint was poured and sprayed on the State House before a suspicious package prompted a bomb squad response.

Police believe the person responsible for vandalism at the Massachusetts State House abandoned a "suspicious package" on ...

“Good Trouble” rallies are coming to Boston and other Massachusetts cities on Thursday, July 17, in protest of the Trump ...

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 Boston Police Department did not respond to several questions about the public safety environment on the Common and whether the recent violence has spurred changes to patrols or other operations.

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.

A trip back, via The Boston Globe archives, through Boston Common’s violent history, which includes out-of-control hippies, striking cops, curfews, stabbings, drug dealing, and shootings.