On Sunday, volunteers placed hundreds of native tree and shrub saplings in a miniature forest outside the Ridley School, a project aimed at increasing biodiversity and fighting climate change. It's Brookline's second mini-forest, inspired by a Japanese botanist.
The Hamas attacks on Israel two years ago today and the ensuing war in Gaza have led to protests, debate and even crime in Brookline. Where does the town go from here?
Brookline's only public cemetery turns 150 this month.
The cemetery, a burying ground for residents and town employees and a much-loved piece of nature in Brookline, is facing modern challenges -- including slowly waning space that requires careful management.
As town and school district leaders work together to try to come up with a proposal for a potential override, mistrust between the two has boiled over in public.
A 43-year-old Brookline resident was arrested after allegedly firing a pellet rifle near a Beacon St synagogue on the eve of Yom Kippur, breaking car window.
The man, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, told police he was hunting rats.
William Wiener, who lived in Brookline during his many years as a top neurosurgeon at MetroWest Medical Center, recently needed brain surgery himself at 93.
He knew where to go and to whom to turn: One of his former mentees at the hospital.
ICE detained a 30-year-old man in Brookline last week, waiting for hours outside the police station after he was arrested for alleged domestic violence.
It's the third ICE arrest documented here since the start of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
Brookline students performed well above state average on last year's MCAS exams and gained some ground toward pre-pandemic results, but elementary schoolers continue to underperform in English, and Black/Latino students are still scoring below peers in most subjects.
Over 100 artists and bands performed on 63 porches, driveways and lawns Saturday, filling Brookline’s neighborhoods with every genre from jazz to punk rock to a cappella for Brookline Porchfest.
The FBI considered investigating an act of vandalism at a Jewish grocery store in Brookline using a controversial investigative technique called a geofence warrant, public record emails show.
Ultimately feds did not open a case, and Brookline police have no leads
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell was in Brookline last week, speaking about the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. Here's what she had to say:
The Brookline METCO program faced some ups and downs in the past year. Here's our story on its annual report, plus an interview with director Malcolm Cawthorne
Legendary jazz pianist Ran Blake, who is celebrating his 90th birthday with a performance at First Parish in Brookline tomorrow, reflects on 45 years living in Brookline.
Starbucks is closing two stores in Brookline (and one in nearby Cleveland Circle) as part of major nationwide cuts which will shutter hundreds of stores.
The last day of operations for the Coolidge Corner and Commonwealth Ave locations will be Saturday.
Update on this saga: state regulator says Brookline Town Meeting member Richard Nangle violated campaign finance law in May when he failed to disclose that he was behind local campaign spending done under the name of a dormant neighborhood association.
Heading to Porchfest this weekend? Here are 10 bands to check out ranging from “indie alt emo” and “original traditional folk” to “psychedelic dance party” and “everybody’s favorite tunes.”
Chen's trial began on Tuesday, but the Norfolk District Attorney's Office said Wednesday morning that it would not continue with prosecution of the case, because the alleged victim did not want to testify.
She "maintains that her statement to investigators were true," the office said.
Breaking news: Prosecutors have dropped the charges against Larry Chen, a former Brookline teacher who was accused of raping a 12-year-old student between 2016 and 2018 at the then-Heath School.
On the latest episode of the Brookline.News podcast, go behind the scenes with our reporting into the Calculus Project, and get the answer to a Comm Ave mystery (yes, those restaurants are in Brookline, not Boston).
Longtime resident Michael Berger's new exhibit, on display at Brookline Bank in Coolidge Corner, captures scenes of Brookline through fractals and haze.
Porchfest is this weekend! Stay tuned for a preview on Brookline.News, and click here to check out other local events including two film festivals, a library family game night and more.
