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North America's largest seafood trade show opened its 44th edition in Boston with 1,215 exhibiting companies from 50 countries across 247,915 net square feet.

Reenactors, cannon fire and a mounted Washington marked 250 years since the British left Boston, at a newly restored Dorchester Heights Monument rededicated by the National Park Service.

In warm months the Frog Pond becomes a splash area for kids, with a carousel nearby. In 2026 the spray pool ran daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. until Labor Day.

Half-day cruises out to Stellwagen Bank to see humpback, fin and minke whales.

John Korir of Kenya defended his title in 2:01:52, more than a minute under Geoffrey Mutai's 2011 course record, with the next two men also under the old mark. Sharon Lokedi repeated in 2:18:51 and Marcel Hug won the wheelchair race for a ninth time.

Chef Nicholas Dixon opens a Spanish restaurant in South Boston that treats Spanish cooking as a starting point, cooking over Basque grills in a multi-room dining space.

Public ferries reach islands such as Spectacle, Georges and Peddocks for hiking, history and skyline views. Summer adds lighthouse cruises and evening programs.

Announced on stage at IBM's Think 2026 in Boston, the planned collaboration would pair IBM's AI, hybrid-cloud and consulting capabilities with Aramco's operations and data on agentic AI, automation and materials science, extending a partnership dating to 1947.

Harvard, Tishman Speyer and Breakthrough Properties cut the ribbon on the first phase of the Enterprise Research Campus in Allston: two commercial laboratory buildings called OneMilestone, the 343-apartment Verra, the Atlas Hotel, Harvard's David Rubenstein Treehouse conference centre, 40,000 square feet of retail and more than two acres of public open space. It is the opening move on a 36-acre site, with a Phase B of labs, offices and housing still to be permitted.

After a near-rejection, protests and arrests, councillors approved the $4.9 billion operating budget with $11.8 million of amendments, alongside a $4.4 billion five-year capital plan.

Some 60 tall ships from more than 20 countries, led by USS Constitution, paraded into Boston Harbor for America's 250th, opening five days of free ship tours and fireworks.

The Army Corps of Engineers' draft Boston Coastal Storm Risk Management study proposes more than 20 floodwalls, berms and floodgates along 16 miles of the city's 47-mile coastline, roughly $10 billion of work it says would prevent $41 billion in flood damage.

Judge Richard Stearns threw out the Justice Department's Title VI suit seeking to claw back Harvard's federal funding, finding it had not pled any ongoing violation after the government's June 2025 notice.

Massport shut Boston Logan's Runway 9-27 from 31 August 2026 for 75 days to finish an Engineered Material Arresting System, a crushable bed on a deck partly over the harbour that stops planes overrunning Runway 27.

A London steakhouse arrives in Fort Point with charcoal cooking and seafood.

Judge Julia Kobick heard Nike and New Balance argue over four disputed claim terms in Nike's Flyknit patent suit, after the case restarted in May 2026 from a stay pending Patent Office review.

The FTA closed its last special directive on 11 September 2026, ending four years of federal supervision of MBTA safety that began after a string of derailments, runaway trains and a Red Line death in 2022.

New Balance sued Decathlon in Boston federal court, saying the logo on its Kiprun running shoes, a 'K' that becomes an 'N' when mirrored on the other side of the shoe, is virtually identical to New Balance's famous 'N'.

Universal Music Group and Sony Music filed a second copyright suit against AI music generator Suno in Boston federal court, alleging its licensed-music v6 model was trained on users' interactions with earlier models built on their recordings, 'laundering' the infringement.

A French Canadian and American restaurant from Coda Restaurant Group.

Portland rapper Aminé's first MADE in USA New Balance, a reddish-brown 992 inspired by Oregon's sixth-grade Outdoor School, with a “wood cookie” hangtag, charms and a tackle-box shoebox, for $220.

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit is to hear the Trump administration's appeal of the injunction keeping Harvard able to enroll international students, in the Moakley Courthouse's en banc courtroom.

A day of author talks and literary events in and around Copley Square each autumn.

Angel Reese teams two long-term partners on a brown, orange and yellow Angel Reese 1 inspired by Reese's Pieces, with Reese's branding on the tongue and a special box, for $160.

The city lights the park's trellis for the holidays, the first in a run of seasonal lightings along the waterfront.

Boston Ballet's holiday production of the Tchaikovsky classic returns to the Citizens Opera House for the season.

A British pub planned for Beacon Hill, serving classic comfort food.

An Irish pub and live music destination planned for Adams Village.

Dining and live music inspired by the African diaspora in Nubian Square.

Building A will deliver 94 replacement homes: 37 one-bedrooms, 44 two-bedrooms, 12 three-bedrooms and one four-bedroom. Official financing announcement targets fall 2026 occupancy for Building A.

The city's public rink on Boston Common offers winter skating in the middle of downtown. The same pond is a spray pool in summer.

Boston’s free First Night celebration welcomes 2027 on December 31, 2026, with Copley Square as its announced hub. The new edition’s performer schedule is still pending.

The annual men's college hockey tournament pits Boston University, Boston College, Harvard and Northeastern against each other at TD Garden; the 74th edition opens on Monday 1 February 2027.

The 45th Seafood Expo North America, the continent's largest seafood trade show, runs for three days at Boston's Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center.

Pedal-powered swan boats glide around the Public Garden lagoon, a gentle ride loved by families. The ride runs daily from April through September.

On 27 October 2026 Kalshi put an official Whoop IPO confirmation at 4.5% before Jan 1, 2027, rising to 26% before Jan 1, 2028. The largest step in the ladder runs from Apr 1, 2027 to Jul 1, 2027 (8% to 15%), so that window is the market's most likely stretch; it is a bet on timing, not a listing date.

About 30,000 runners are due to race from Hopkinton to Boylston Street on Monday 19 April 2027, after a record 33,656 qualifiers applied for places. It is the first Boston Marathon with a random draw for about 1,000 qualifiers who miss the cut-off time.

The Boston edition of PAX brings four days of video, tabletop and arcade gaming, panels, concerts and an expo hall.

The one day a year that picnicking is allowed in the Arboretum, set among its lilac collection in bloom. Entry to the grounds is always free.

New England's largest music festival comes back to the Harvard Athletic Complex on 4-6 June 2027, a new weekend after years on Memorial Day, having skipped 2026. Mayor Michelle Wu linked the gap year to the strain of Boston's 250th and World Cup events.

A multi-day Fourth of July festival of living-history performances, concerts and a waterfront fireworks display launched from a barge off Long Wharf.

The Boston Pops play a July 4 concert at the Hatch Shell, followed by fireworks over the Charles River.

95 Everett plans 88 income- and rent-restricted apartments in Allston-Brighton, in studio through three-bedroom layouts. Operator expects completion in summer 2027.

Classic New England agricultural fair with livestock, rides, giant pumpkins and fried-food stands, held in early October.

Hecate Energy is developing the $175 million, 150 MWac Cumberland Solar Facility across nearly 1,000 acres north of Columbia Road (Route 590) in the Cartersville community of northern Cumberland County, Virginia. Formally approved by the Cumberland County Board of Supervisors under a Conditional Use Permit and Siting Agreement, the single-axis tracking solar array interconnects directly into the regional PJM transmission grid along the Bremo-Cartersville 230 kV corridor, generating clean power for over 37,500 Virginia homes.

All 13 Boston City Council seats, nine district and four at-large, are up for their regular two-year election, the first test of the council after Wu's re-election.

The first of two connected towers in Mass General's Cambridge Street expansion takes its first patients, bringing 450 beds and 12 levels of operating, procedural and interventional space for the Corrigan Minehan Heart Center and the Mass General Cancer Center. Turner topped out the steel in February 2025; the second tower is not due until 2030.

The city-owned stadium in Franklin Park reopens after a rebuild that grew from a $30 million repair into a $325 million project, $135 million of it public money from the City of Boston and $190 million from the owners of Boston Legacy FC. The NWSL club will not play its first match there until 2028; Boston Public Schools athletics get the ground back first.