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Local author and ornithologist Scott Weidensaul talks about the successful rebounds of local birds, like piping plovers and oystercatchers, and the challenges that remain.

For years, developers have argued factory-built is part of the solution to Massachusetts' housing shortage. Scott Kirsner, columnist with editorial partner MassLive, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss a new modular project in East Somerville and some of the challenges modular construction faces.

The Democrat joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss the mark she wants to leave in her final months on Capitol Hill.

Father J. Bryan Hehir, a top official in the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, articulated a global off-ramp from nuclear apocalypse in his 1983 letter with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The fiction podcast tells the story of 12-year-old Joule Watts-Green, who accidentally steps through her mom's time machine into an unrecognizable Boston, where floods and storms have destroyed the city. Listeners can help Joule return home and even rewind some of the climate impacts through the choices they make at the end of each episode.

A tail wind helped propel runners from Hopkinton to Boston, with the men's champion breaking a 15-year-old course record by more than one minute.

In advance of the 130th running of the race from Hopkinton to Copley Square, Ashlock spoke with WBUR's Weekend Edition about some of the Boston Marathon's traditions, changes and memorable characters.

A panel convened by WBUR is sorting through dozens of local entries into NPR's famed Tiny Desk Contest. 

Fultz won the Boston Marathon on a day when temperatures neared 100 degrees. He's serving as the race's grand marshal this year.

In this excerpt from a conversation at WBUR's CitySpace, Whoop founder Will Ahmed discusses the Boston roots of his wearable tech brand with WBUR's Morning Edition host Tiziana Dearing.

The Sugar Road Band is the brainchild of Berklee College of Music professor Leo Blanco.

On Monday, Mia Sanchez and her grandfather, Carlos Sanchez, will run the Boston Marathon. They believe they're the first known grandparent and grandchild pair to qualify to run the marathon together.

WBUR's Morning Edition looks back on two decades of a bill that created comprehensive health care reform in Massachusetts and paved the way for the federal Affordable Care Act.

No Boston Olympics co-founder Chris Dempsey and Scottish soccer commentator Rory Hamilton join WBUR's Morning Edition to weigh in on the politics and attitudes behind the price of train tickets to Gillette and whether, ultimately, it's a fair price to charge.

Rep. Jake Auchincloss joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss the two-week ceasefire deal in Iran.

President Trump wrote on Truth Social that a "whole civilization ​will die tonight, never to ​be brought back ​again" if Iran does not reach a deal to end the conflict by tonight. Rep. Jim McGovern, a member of Massachusetts' all-Democratic delegation, told WBUR that "the president is posting things and saying things that make him sound like a madman."

The plan cuts several city programs and grows spending by only 2%, less than the rate of inflation.

Scott Kirsner, columnist for WBUR's editorial partner MassLive, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to talk about who is winning the race for autonomous cafes and what he thinks of the coffee.

Tight tax rules and growing expenses are putting Massachusetts communities in a fiscal bind.

The Sox have stumbled out to a 1-5 start to their 2026 campaign.

Lori Trahan, a member of the all-Democratic Massachusetts Congressional delegation, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss the latest on the war in Iran

Marshall Ganz spent 16 years as one of Cesar Chavez's top lieutenants, organizing farmworkers in California.

Mark Ethier runs the Berklee Emerging Artistic Technology Lab, or BEATL. His job is to prepare Berklee College of Music students for an evolving industry where the use of AI in creating and marketing music is widespread.

Massachusetts has too many deer. They eat native plants, spread disease and cause deforestation. To solve that, Gov. Maura Healey wants to lift a century-old ban and allow Sunday hunting.

A new three-part documentary is set to premiere tonight on PBS. It looks at the life of Henry David Thoreau, from his upbringing in Massachusetts, his time living at Walden Pond, and his pursuits for science and equality after he left the cabin.