For David Foster of Chicago, it was a stunning and welcome early Christmas present for him, his wife and three young children.The Senate’s 11th-hour extension of the Mortgage... 6 hours ago | Boston Herald
The state’s gaming czar says local casinos are ready to weather mounting competitive pressures in New York and Connecticut in 2015, as his commission gears up to regulate its... 6 hours ago | Boston Herald
Massachusetts ski areas are awaiting this week’s forecasted return of colder weather to make more snow and kick the season up a notch.Wachusett Mountain Ski Area in Princeton,... 6 hours ago | Boston Herald
An emergency room is all that remains of a 124-year-old hospital in Quincy.After reaching an agreement with state regulators, Quincy Medical Center officially closed its doors at... 13 hours ago | Boston Herald
The 4 percent discount that Market Basket shoppers enjoyed on most purchases for the past year is coming to an end.The New England supermarket chain introduced the discount in... 14 hours ago | Boston Herald
Fans and critics of popular ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft will get a chance to weigh in on proposed regulations that could govern how the firms operate in... 15 hours ago | Boston Herald
Two fire chiefs and two poultry farm bosses have been convicted and sentenced to prison terms of up to nine years in relation to a fire at a plant in northeastern China last year... 19 hours ago | Boston Herald
A half-century after Washington severed relations with Cuba, the United States' seven-story mission looms over Havana's seaside Malecon boulevard as the largest diplomatic outpost... 21 hours ago | Boston Herald
Real estate in Greater Boston this year has been somewhat of a paradox.The market saw a huge influx of luxury apartment complexes, with high rents and lots of amenities, and... December 26, 2014 | Boston Herald
Sony Pictures has pioneered a new model for marketing films, bypassing big theaters and instead looking to a startup and streaming services to distribute the movie that sparked an... December 26, 2014 | Boston Herald
The Massachusetts attorney general's office is investigating Santander bank's auto lending business over concerns that the company may be engaged in the type of predatory... December 26, 2014 | Boston Herald
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley's off is investigating the automobile-loan practices of Santander, the Boston Globe reports. The paper says Santander refused to... December 26, 2014 | Business Journal
Here are some of the biggest stories around the biotech, pharmaceutical and life sciences industry over the past year: Merger mania: Covidien, Idenix and Cubist all were or are in... December 26, 2014 | Business Journal
Local biotech companies saw eight new drugs get approval in the U.S. in 2014, an increase from the five approved last year by local biotechs or their partners. Biogen was the... December 26, 2014 | Business Journal
A summary of recent developments and personnel news within Greater Boston's health care community. Hospitals say law streamlines operations The Massachusetts Hospital Association... December 26, 2014 | Business Journal