Philip Marcelo

Associated Press

A man walks outside the Biogen Inc., headquarters, Wednesday, March 11, 2020, in Cambridge, Mass.

Coronavirus Cluster Tied to Biotech Meeting

It's a warning for employers who are still holding big gatherings as the outbreak spreads.

In this Jan. 30, 2019, file photo, Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor leaves federal court in Boston. Kapoor and former top employees of the pharmaceutical company are facing a reckoning for their role in a bribery scheme that prosecutors say boosted sales of a powerful, highly addictive painkiller and helped fuel the national opioid epidemic.Starting Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, seven people who worked for Insys Therapeutics will appear in Boston to be sentenced by a federal judge.

Ex-Drug Execs Face Reckoning

The scheme allegedly helped fuel the national opioid epidemic.

In this Oct. 2 photo, cranberry grower Dick Ward stands near a solar array in a cranberry bog on his farm, in Carver, MA.

Cranberry Farmers Want Solar Panels over their Bogs

Farmers hope to shoulder lean times for their industry by gleaning extra revenue in the form of long-term land leases with solar developers.

In this photo, cranberries grow in a cranberry bog near solar arrays in Carvar, MA.

Cranberry Farmers Want Solar Panels

Blending renewable energy technology with traditional farming hasn't been tried before on large-scale, commercial crops.

In this Sep. 21, 2018, file photo, fire investigators pause while searching the debris at a home which exploded following a gas line failure in Lawrence, Mass. Federal officials are discussing their findings from a yearlong investigation into last September's natural gas explosions and fires in Massachusetts. The National Transportation Safety Board meets in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019, to discuss and vote on its final report about the Sept. 13, 2018, incident.

Feds Want New Requirements After Natural Gas Disaster

The NTSB said Tuesday every state should require all natural gas infrastructure projects to be reviewed and approved by a licensed professional engineer.

In this Sept. 13, 2018 file image take from video provided by WCVB in Boston, flames consume the roof of a home following an explosion in Lawrence, Mass, a suburb of Boston. Federal investigators are confirming that over pressurized natural gas lines were the source of a series of explosions and fires in communities north of Boston last month. The preliminary report on Thursday, Oct. 11 from the National Transportation Safety Board said that Columbia Gas work in Lawrence on Sept. 13 failed to account for the location of critical gas pressure sensors, causing high-pressure gas to flood the distribution system at excessive levels.

Feds: Over-Pressurized Lines Caused Explosions

One person was killed and about 25 others were injured in the ensuing chaos.

David Hogg, center, a survivor of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla., walks in a planned 50-mile march, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018, in Worcester, Mass. The march, held to call for gun law reforms, began Thursday, in Worcester, and is scheduled to end Sunday, Aug. 26, in Springfield, Mass., at the headquarters of gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson.

Activists to March 50 Miles to Gun Maker's Headquarters

Smith & Wesson has become a target for gun control activists.

In this Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018, photo provided by Rebecca Miller, condensation covers an exterior door at Holland Hall on the Tennessee State University campus in Nashville, Tenn. Many office workers find they still have to brave the cold even after they escape the frigid outdoors during the extremely cold winter weather. Miller, an academic adviser at the school, wears sweaters, a scarf, ear coverings, gloves and a blanket over her lap while she works in the building.

Chilly Offices Plague Workers

Many office dwellers still have to brave the cold even when indoors.

In this Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017 photo press operator Cham Cha, of Cranston, R.I., attaches a braille plate to a printing press at the National Braille Press in Boston. The Boston-based organization has been a leading force for braille literacy in the U.S., since its founding as a weekly newspaper for the blind in 1927. But it is now confronting a record low literacy in the writing system for the blind as it marks its 90th birthday this year.

Can Tech Save Braille Literacy?

Industry looks for ways to address record low Braille literacy.

In this April 14, 2017 photo provided by Saildrone, a Saildrone vehicle maneuvers during a data collection mission in the Pacific Ocean off the California coast. The autonomous sailing vessel, which would provide surveillance and reconnaissance for the U.S. Navy without the need for manned crews or human pilots, was designed with the help of funding from the U.S. Defense Department's Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, which works with contractors to fund and develop solutions for the military's toughest technology challenges.

Experimental Unit Faces Skeptics

Startup companies enlisted to come up with solutions to the military's toughest tech challenges.

In this Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016 photograph, the word 'Boston' accents the sole of the New Balance Zante v2 shoe on display at the storefront of the world headquarters of New Balance in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. Some of America's top sneaker makers are racing to the Boston area. Reebok picked the city's Seaport District for its new global headquarters in December. Homegrown Boston-area companies New Balance and Converse opened new offices in 2015. Industry watchers said the boldly designed headquarters are partly a bid to lure millennial talent.

Sneaker Makers Stake Claim in Boston

Has Beantown become Shoetown?

A glass of Samuel Adams Boston Beer Company '80-Miles of Helles' beer, left, and a glass of Castle Island Brewing Company 'Chuck, dry hopped cream ale rest on a rock along the bank of the Charles River. Both beers are made using Charles River water.

Beer from Boston River Water

New England's leading breweries will compete to see who can turn the questionable water of the Charles River into the tastiest suds.