This city is finally preparing to heal a hole in its heart: the site of the former Filene’s depart­ment store that for more than three years has been a stalled … read more »

New York is on pace for the “safest decade in recorded city his­tory,” with homi­cides, fire-​​​​related fatal­i­ties and the speed at which ambu­lances arrive at life-​​​​threatening inci­dents near his­tor­ical lows, … read more »

Crime con­tinues to fall in all major cat­e­gories, a streak that has now hit 4½ years, according to data released Monday, but killings of police offi­cers are on the rise … read more »

Oil prices back above $100 a barrel, rising U.S. exports and falling stocks of dis­til­lates, and growing demand for both heating oil and diesel may prove to be a toxic … read more »

When Virginia’s mag­ni­tude 5.8 earth­quake hit last August, the first Twitter reports sent from people at the epi­center began almost instantly at 1:51 p.m. €”and reached New York about 40 … read more »

That whimper you hear is what’s left of the eco­nomic recovery. Mar­kets are wob­bling, job­less­ness remains high, con­sumer spending has slipped, and revised fig­ures show — oops! — the economy … read more »

U.S. inspec­tors on Monday started using more sen­si­tive tests to detect antibi­otics in pork, part of a stepped-​​​​up effort to ensure meat safety after a gov­ern­ment report last year sug­gested … read more »

Hon­ey­bees under stress appar­ently become pes­simistic, just like anx­ious mam­mals (including humans).

Repub­lican Mitt Romney bills him­self as a business-​​​​savvy job cre­ator, but his pres­i­den­tial cam­paign will have to con­tend with the fact that Mass­a­chu­setts ranked 47th in job cre­ation during his … read more »

Par­ents have long dif­fered on whether chil­dren should be paid for doing house­hold chores. Some say tying kids’€™ allowances to house­work is good training for entering the work­force. But others … read more »

The legal­iza­tion of gay mar­riage in New York means some cou­ples may have to walk down the aisle for the most prac­tical of rea­sons: to hold onto their part­ners’ health … read more »

Teenagers may have to dig harder to find a job this summer.