♪ KAREN: GOOD AFTERNOON. I’M KAREN HOLMES WARD. THE DOG DAYS OF SUMMER ARE HERE AND BOSTONIANS ARE LOOKING TO GET OUT OF THE HOUSE AND INTO THE GREAT OUTDOORS. MANY CITY DWELLERS FLOCK TO THE EMERALD ...

BOSTON(CBS) -- Bridges along the Emerald Necklace Conservancy in Boston will be lit up emerald green every night for the next month. The battery-powered LED lights will turn on around dusk and stay on ...

The Emerald Necklace — the name given to the archipelago of parks that stretches from Boston Common to Franklin Park — now has a soundtrack. Composed by Andrew List, a professor at Berklee College of ...

Creating common ground was the mission of Frederick Law Olmsted, founder of American landscape architecture. The year 2022 marks the bicentennial of Olmsted’s birth and his epic impact across North ...

Beneath an overpass on Commonwealth Avenue where the Back Bay, Kenmore and Fenway neighborhoods meet, the sound of passing cars is impossible to ignore. The patches of grass are few and far between, ...

Inspired equally by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's iconic detective and the ephemeral fog sculptures by artist Fujiko Nakaya, Huntington Playwriting Fellow Walt McGough has written Sherlock Holmes and the ...

Fog drifts through Boston's Emerald Necklace, a chain of parks that link Boston Common and Franklin Park, as part of Fujiko Nakaya's "Fog x FLO" installation. (Video: Christopher McIntosh) Review by ...

Things can get dark and gloomy in the dog days of Boston winter, what with our short, chilly days and long frigid nights, which persist long after the Christmas trees are hauled out to the curb or ...

There’s something about the twinkling lights that adorn the city around the holidays that takes a bit of the edge off of Boston’s bitterly cold winters. But as the season inches along, many of those ...

When the clocks turned back and the days got cold, it got that more difficult to visit Boston’s outdoor spaces, one of few safe activities available in the age of COVID-19 restrictions. A new feature ...

The Emerald Necklace Conservancy and 15 citizens from Boston and Brookline filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in Suffolk Superior Civil Court to stop a proposal to renovate White Stadium in Franklin Park — a ...