With temperatures plummeting toward the single digits Friday, residents throughout Massachusetts bundled up to brace against frigid air and biting winds.

Photos: Bostonians cope with frigid conditions

It won't be around for too long, but Massachusetts may see some of the coldest weather it's experienced in years Friday evening into Saturday.

Something frigid this way comes

Rufus Faulk, who was appointed by former Mayor Marty Walsh, will be replaced by his friend and mentee Isaac Yablo. 

Boston's outgoing public safety adviser reflects on how violence in the city has changed in 5 years

Advocates in Newburyport say new housing solutions are needed for these families and others who've been forcibly displaced worldwide. They're working to create "resettlement homes."

2 Afghan families still living in a Newburyport church basement after more than a year

Boston has more than 900 electric vehicle chargers, and most are concentrated downtown. Neighborhoods like Mattapan, Hyde Park, Roslindale and parts of Dorchester could be considered charging deserts. 

The city has relied largely on private companies to decide where chargers go. But it’s also installing EV chargers in city-owned lots.

For EVs to take off, Boston needs more equitable placement of chargers

On Tuesday night, the State Republican Committee narrowly voted (37-34) to replace two-term chairman Jim Lyons with Washington lobbyist Amy Carnevale of Marblehead. She will serve a two-year term as chair.

MassGOP taps Amy Carnevale to be new party chair

People 21 and older will be able to bet on professional and college sports games at Everett's Encore Boston Harbor, the MGM in Springfield, and Plainridge Park Casino. People can also bet on awards shows like the Oscars and Emmys.

Fans place their first bets as legal sports betting goes live in Mass.

Boston officials say the killing of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols in Memphis underscores the importance of moving forward with police reforms here. Community advocates say there’s much more work to do.

Advocates call for re-commitment to Boston police reform after fatal beating of Tyre Nichols

Massachusetts Republicans failed to field a single successful candidate for statewide office last November, and now the party finds itself at a crossroads. GOP Chairman Jim Lyons wants a third term as party leader. But there is discontent among some Republicans, who reject his strategy.

After a drubbing last election, Mass. GOP finds itself at a crossroads

As of January 31, Massachusetts will allow legalized sports betting in casinos, with legal mobile sports gambling set to follow a few weeks after. Rachel Volberg, a professor and researcher, discusses the what new social risks may come along with the new era of gambling in the state.

Sports betting in Mass. ushers in new era of gambling, along with new social risks

City officials are working on a plan to redevelop Mattapan, beautify its main square, attract more businesses and add housing. And they're hoping to do all this without displacing the neighborhood's existing residents, who are mostly people of color.

Mattapan will be a case study in how to balance economic growth and racial equity

The Central Square club was a hotspot for goth, queer and fetish communities. This month it reopened at a new location after an 18-year hiatus.

ManRay, once the heart of alternative nightlife in Cambridge, is reborn

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu took some big swings during her first State of the City address on Wednesday, including fundamental changes to how construction is done in the city and a push to bring back a modified form of capping rent increases.

Wu sets sights on housing, schools in first State of the City address

When Li and her team started strategizing for the new 4,000-square-foot space, they ran with a novel question: "Wouldn't it be cool if people could see inside a dumpling factory?"

Take a peek inside James Beard Award-winner Irene Li's new dumpling factory and cafe

Gov. Maura Healey laid the groundwork for a comprehensive housing policy during her campaign. On Friday, she made the topic one of the first she's tackled in office, announcing a working group to develop a cabinet-level housing office for her administration.

As Healey proposes new housing secretary, advocates and landlords push for bold action

With the help of federal grants and new financing arrangements, more Massachusetts school districts have electric buses in their transportation fleets.

More Massachusetts districts are switching to electric school buses

Thirty-seven hospitals in Massachusetts have started offering intensive home-based mental health care to the families of children stuck in emergency rooms. Counseling at home instead of admission to a psychiatric hospital doesn't work for everyone. But the state says the vast majority of youth who've used this option have not returned to the hospital in a mental health crisis.

As ER waits stretch for days, Mass. turns to in-home care for children's mental health

WBUR visited Barnstable to see where the project stands and learn what work remains.

Checking in on Vineyard Wind, country's first large offshore wind project in Mass.

The family of Larry Ruiz-Barreto wants the FBI to reinvestigate the police shooting that killed the 19-year-old after the officer involved was recently charged with filing false reports in another case.

Falsification charges against Fall River cop prompt calls to reinvestigate his past

Although Boston in 2021 voted overwhelmingly to restore an elected school committee, signs of a slowdown have frustrated some advocates and city council members, who say they will continue to push for an elected body.

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