WBZ / CBS News Boston

07/12/2025

"The ceremony today is a significant moment for the city, in the history of the city and certainly for the Menino family," said WBZ-TV political analyst Jon Keller.

The Boston Convention and Exhibition Center was officially renamed Saturday to honor the late former Mayor Tom Menino.

07/12/2025

A young man who can only commute with his thumb... was able to unlock his hidden brilliance and now he's heading to MIT!

Viraj Dhanda, a nonspeaking autistic teen, spent the first 14 years of his life trying to learn the basics, until his brilliance was suddenly unlocked by his father with the help of Viraj's right thumb.

07/12/2025

A tourist was posing for a photo in front of Sullivan's Castle Island in Boston, when a seagull swooped in and swiped her hot dog.

07/12/2025

A waterfront condo building in Cambridge is at risk of collapsing... and now the streets surrounding it will be closed.

A waterfront condo building in Cambridge, Massachusetts is at risk of collapsing and the streets surrounding it will be closed.

07/12/2025

This has been one of the worst tick seasons in quite awhile.

According to the CDC, emergency room visits for tick bites in the Northeast are at their highest levels in at least five years.

07/12/2025

Muggy with a slight chance of a storm today... so Sunday is the pick of the weekend!

Jacob Wycoff has your latest weather forecast.

07/12/2025

A message in a bottle thrown into the Atlantic Ocean by a Canadian couple in Newfoundland 13 years ago recently washed ashore a beach in Ireland.

Brad and Anita Squires cast a message in a bottle from Newfoundland in 2012. It was found more than a decade later.

07/12/2025

Patty Hartman, who worked with the public affairs team on Jan. 6 prosecutions, was fired Monday by Pam Bondi.

07/12/2025

The millions of Americans with student loans, who have already experienced whiplash in federal policy since the pandemic, must again brace for change.

New law reduces the number of federal student loan repayment options and caps how much individuals can borrow for higher education.

07/12/2025

Justin Goodney jumped over the bar, got behind the man, and began the Heimlich maneuver.

A bartender at the Ground Round in Shrewsbury saved a customer who was choking.

07/12/2025

Ceddanne Rafaela hit a walk-off home run and the Red Sox extended their winning streak to a season-best 8 games with a 5-4 win over the Rays on Friday night.

Ceddanne Rafaela hit a walk-off home run and the Red Sox extended their winning streak to a season-best eight games with a 5-4 win over the Rays on Friday night.

07/12/2025

"We have tons of food that people don't finish that goes in here, so the rats are eating well."

With sanitation workers still on strike in some Massachusetts communities, trash is piling up outside businesses and homes.