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 Cambridge School Committee dodged a self-imposed deadline to evaluate superintendent Victoria Greer, but paused long enough in passing a $268.3 million budget to call the president of the Cambridge Education Association a liar and slanderer.

Pro-labor politics could raise construction costs in Cambridge, where city councillors have been concerned about spiraling project expenses.

As with police departments nationwide, Cambridge struggles to hire officers while staying active in an array of enforcement, outreach and other work from combating a drug crisis to tamping down fights in schools, leaders said.

Public meetings this week look an Armory master plan, alternatives to rat-trap poison, resident displacement and aid to the unhoused, a students’ health survey trivia event delated from Feb. 1 and talk about a wage theft ordinance.

Over the past few years, more businesses have asked Cambridge Local First for help with finding employees, and the organization has pursued a range of interventions. But the staffing shortages remain, and will continue to.

After 112 years on Cambridge Street, the Damaso family’s Courthouse Fish Market has closed its doors – a little over six months after the closing of the Fernandes Fish Market.

Labor activist Evan MacKay has launched a campaign to challenge state Rep. Marjorie Decker for her seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

It would be a brutally cold morning for supporters of district teachers and administrators to rallt outside schools for a contract – but for now they don’t have to. 

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