A peaceful protest is held Saturday at the Central Square, Cambridge, office of the company Elbit. (Photo: Sue Reinert) Activists seeking to shut down the Cambridge office of Elbit Systems of America because of its weapons business held a “Block Elbit …

Nine companies have proposed body cameras they could provide to Cambridge police, ranging from cellphones to cameras sewn into officer uniforms.

An attorney has asked a Cambridge District Court judge to impose sanctions on an assistant district attorney and on an unidentified state trooper.

The huge project to replace and expand the Jefferson Park public housing development will be split in two, the Cambridge Housing Authority has decided.

A week after an early morning Thanksgiving day shooting in Central Square killed a woman and injured a man, law enforcement authorities identified the woman as Danasia Greene, 27, and said she lived on Child Street in Cambridge’s North Point.

It’s been more than two years since city councillors first endorsed a grassroots alternative to police called Heart. Yet the organization still has no contract for city financial support, and the reason remains unclear.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was asked Tuesday by a City Council committee vote to withdraw its opposition to Eversource’s preferred route for new transmission lines through its campus – an unusual attempt to pressure the school.

One of the city’s major affordable-housing developers, Homeowners Rehab Inc., has been criticized for its response to heating, elevator and other problems reported by tenants at the 116-unit Inman Square Apartments.

Cambridge Health Alliance is struggling to fill nursing vacancies, particularly in psychiatric units and emergency department where work can be dangerous.

The city filed testimony by public works commissioner Kathy Watkins saying Cambridge supports the utility’s routes for underground cables on city streets that run through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus.