It takes a Village to raise a neighborhood

The district around the Broadway T station in Southie,­ once home to Whitey­ Bulger's Triple O's, used to be called the Lower End and more recently was considered part of the neighborhood's expansive West Side. But the triangle along Dorchester Avenue...

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Mass. jobless rate dips, but trails U.S.

Massachusetts added more than 10,000 jobs last month as the unemployment rate dipped slightly, but the gap between the state's and the nation's jobless rate continued to widen. "We're just staying the same and the U.S. has been going down," said Elliot...

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Beloved ‘Chet and Nat’ shared spotlight

Chet and Nat. They were a TV news anchor match made in heaven. Natalie Jacobson yesterday shared some kind words about her former husband Chet Curtis in a statement she read to the Herald. Curtis died Wednesday night at age 74 of pancreatic cancer....

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Panel: Minimum on tax too low

The Gaming Commission is considering asking lawmakers to raise the minimum amount of winnings subject to state tax requirements, arguing that failing to do so could cost the Bay State as much as $58 million in lost revenue by driving gamblers to less...

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Website woes seen months before launch

State officials overseeing the Health Connector website knew as early as February 2013 — some nine months before launch — that parts of the $69 million Obamacare gateway would probably be delayed, public records obtained by the Herald last night revealed....

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Local life science companies flex muscles at conference

Life science com­panies — one of Massachusetts' key sectors — are coming off a week that showcased them at their strongest, according to local industry in­siders who attended the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. More than 240 biotech...

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The Ticker

Experts: Target hackers will be tough to find The hackers behind the recent Target data breach are likely a world away and nearly impossible to find. That's the consensus among outside cybercrime experts­ as Target, the Secret Service and the FBI continue...

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Chain targets part-timers

Target's decision to move its part-time workers from its own insurance program to Obama­care likely marks the opening of the floodgates for other com­panies to do the same, potentially pushing tens of thousands of Bay State part-timers onto government-sanctioned...

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Boston Ponzi schemers get prison time

As three members of a West Roxbury family were sentenced yesterday for bilking their victims out of more than $10 million to fund their lavish lifestyle, officials warned potential investors to take steps to protect themselves from such Ponzi schemes....

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Teen tobacco use up in smoke

New national figures, showing that declines in youth tobacco use have slowed, indicate that Big Tobacco's relentless marketing is trumping widespread prevention efforts, experts told the Herald yesterday. A new report from the U.S. surgeon general,...

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Builder bets on Eastie waterfront

Gerding Edlen is betting on a turnaround for East Boston waterfront development and prospects for a stalled New Street project. The Portland, Ore., developer paid $7.27 million for the 3.9-acre parcel at 6-26 New St., near LoPresti Park on the inner...

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WeWork to rent desks to startups

A new collaborative office space for startups is coming to Boston, and organizers say it can add a sense of community to start-ups in Boston. "WeWork is going to bring the most amazing startup community in Boston," said Hunter Perry, a Boston startup...

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Ginger Man taps Fort Point again

A New York tavern boasting 70 taps and 160 varieties of bottled beer has its second lease in as many years for a spot in South Boston's Fort Point neighborhood. Bob Precious, owner of The Ginger Man, this time wants to move into a 6,000-square-foot...

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$20M-$30M cleanup eyed for Wynn site

Wynn Resorts says it is close to an agreement to clean the contaminated Everett site it is targeting for a casino and 500-room luxury hotel — on land a recent study concluded is too contaminated for residential use. An Aug. 27 action plan authored by...

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West Coast firm buys One Kendall Square for $395M

San Francisco's 
Divco­West increased its Boston-area holdings last week with the $395 million purchase of the One Kendall Square office, lab and retail complex in Cambridge. The San Francisco real estate investment firm bought the nine-building, 670,000-square-foot...

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Drone bill headed to State House

A bill that would restrict how police in Massachusetts can use drones — requiring warrants and banning weapons — goes to a Transportation Committee hearing on Beacon Hill tomorrow. "I just want to ensure we don't have a major intrusion of our privacy...

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Casino applicants wary about trade secrets

Lawyers for the state Gaming Commission are poring over a slew of casino application filings marked "confidential" to judge the merits of developers' claims that they include critical trade secrets — but City Hall suspects they may be overreaching. ...

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Boeing, Etihad to develop aviation biofuels

Aircraft maker Boeing Co., Etihad Airways, the oil company Total and others say they will work together on a program to develop an aviation biofuel industry in the United Arab Emirates. Boeing says in a news release Sunday that the program will involve...

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Tempo thermometer kinda cool, and that’s just how it leaves us

Tempo Bluetooth Smart Thermometer ($47, Bluemaestro.com) The latest edition to the "smart home" movement comes to us from U.K. startup Blue Maestro. This app-enabled temperature sensor can alert your smartphone when the temperature of a room is outside...

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New mayor embraces digital technology

For the first time ever, there is a computer on the desk of Boston's mayor, just one of several signs that a new digital era has arrived at City Hall. Mayor Martin J. Walsh has not one, but two iPhones — an iPhone 5 as his personal phone, and a shiny...

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Tech industry: Obama's NSA reforms 'insufficient'

SAN FRANCISCO — Technology companies and industry groups took President Barack Obama's speech on U.S. surveillance as a step in the right direction, but chided him for not embracing more dramatic reforms to protect people's privacy and the economic interests...

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AP: Borgata ends fake chip-tainted NJ poker match

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Saying they have confirmed that one or more people used "a significant number of counterfeit chips" at an Atlantic City poker tournament, state casino regulators on Saturday canceled the tainted match and ordered all prize money...

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Chestnut Hill attracts hip Back Bay shops

Newbury Street has long been the marquee address for posh brands to make their Boston debut. But lately a stretch of Boylston Street in Chestnut Hill is giving the Back Bay a run for its money with a slew of chic retailers opening new, bigger spaces....

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Boston company Global Rescue guarding U.S. skiers at Sochi

The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association is relying on a Boston company to get its team members out of a tight spot in the event of a terrorist attack or other crisis at next month's Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. "When something does happen, it's...

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