The infamous witch trials may have put this Boston suburb on the map, but they’ve also overshadowed much of its magic. Here’s ...

The Declaration of Independence condemns King George III for having “burnt our towns.” But the British were not to blame for one of the war’s most infamous conflagrations.

Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...

By 1773, patriots dumped 342 chests of British tea into Boston Harbor, which is a $2 million act of defiance today. When King George III retaliated with the Intolerable Acts, 12 colonies sent ...

On Memorial Day, dozens of men of color wearing tuxedos, jeweled collars and white aprons, marched through the North End’s Copp’s Hill Cemetery. The march ended at one of the grandest monuments in the ...

Georges Island opens on June 16. Peddocks Island Peddocks Island, one of the Boston Harbor Islands, has camping yurts that are available to the public for overnight stays.

Authorities recently identified the victim of a decades-old murder in Boston Harbor using advanced genetic services. According to Boston Police, Toussaint Gonsalves was found stabbed to death near ...

Boston Harbor Now has organized an ice sculpture stroll to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Boston Harborwalk. The sculptures will be on display from 1 p.m. to dusk on Tuesday.

In a span of three hours, they smashed 340 chests of tea and dumped over 92,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. The damage caused, in today's money, was worth more than $1.7 million.

Information from these tags can also be used to get at the “why” of the sharks’ movements, including what’s driving them to use Boston Harbor. “We’ll see if the harbor qualifies as a ...

A humpback whale has been seen breaching in Boston Harbor and Dorchester Bay recently, and one crashed into a boat in New Hampshire last month. Here's what to know about the ferry delays today.

Linnea Mayfield, the naturalist manager at Boston Harbor City Cruise, which operates ferries for the M.B.T.A., said in an interview that the young whale is believed to be about 2 years old and it ...