The MBTA will consider fare-free sections of bus routes where the red line closes for repairs this year, but making the No. 1 bus fare-free is off the table for now.

A Manchester, New Hampshire, man was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Boston for making bomb threats against Harvard University.

Professor Martin Blatt knows his history and is concerned local officials are about to repeat it – namely arrests and violence against protesting students.

Public meetings this week look at city-funded housing vouchers; transportation planning policy; universal after-school options and the middle-school experience; and what’s next for a church weathervane made in 1721.

Public meetings this week look at safe disposal of drugs and meds, scholarship committee updates, hiring at Tufts, the TSA and other employers and more.

Schools in Cambridge and Somerville are protesting over Gaza, but administrators and police are moving with caution, emphasizing support for protest and free speech to contrast with the tarnished images of officials elsewhere.

A man running an unlicensed chiropractic business out of his home has been charged with sexually assaulting two women who fell for the ruse, officials said.

The conductor, musical director and founder of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra is preparing for the final concert of the year, honoring a composer he’s returned to many times – and for which he’s been given a medal of honor. Friday will be “a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” Benjamin Zander said.

The office of Somerville’s mayor plans to staff a new fire station coming to Assembly Square with “lateral” hires of firefighters from outside the city.

The Somerville Media Center is now a permanent resident of Somernova, a 7.4-acre business campus in Somerville’s Ward 2 neighborhood.