A city staff pattern of unfulfilled promises and repeated studies was called out by two city councillors, but in this case the City Council had a role in the practice.

Somerville’s Bow Market plans to open an expansion in September after a year of construction that’s converted a former Cambridge Heath Alliance building in Union Square into five storefronts. They’re larger than its existing pop-up spaces, allowing successful shops to grow.

After an extra two years and an additional $4 million, Inman Square construction is expected to be finished paving this week and get final touches on a public plaza within three to four weeks, according to Cambridge staff.

Competition for court time, noise and a lack of notice have raised tennis player hackles at Hoyt Field as increasingly popular pickleball needs space in Cambridge.

A transgender influencer’s video with Bud Light cans has drawn a conservative boycott that has dethroned the beer as the bestselling brand in America, but the impact hasn’t been in Cambridge and Somerville stores.

Reddit was born and refined in Medford and Somerville, where moderators of Cambridge and Somerville pages have been largely silent during an upheaval.

Cambridge is suing over a 5.5-acre solar panel project in Lexington that would cut down more than 1,000 mature trees protecting the Hobbs Brook Reservoir, the main source of Cantabrigians’ drinking water.