Paris hit by air pollution spike, halves cars on roads

PARIS — Paris will cut the number of cars on the road in half beginning Monday and is making public transit free to combat a spike in pollution that has obscured even the Eiffel Tower under a smoggy haze. The mayor's office announced Saturday that only...

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Fed rate hike to have big impact

When the Federal Reserve finally raises interest rates, the ripple effect will hit everything from business investment to consumer borrowing, but that doesn't make it the wrong move, experts say. "Short-term interest rates are going to go up, and that's...

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Potent groups take sides on bipartisan House Medicare plan

WASHINGTON — A budding bipartisan deal to shelter physicians from Medicare cuts, championed by the House's two top leaders, is drawing powerful allies including the American Medical Association and a rainbow of conservative and liberal groups. House...

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Events celebrate start of maple syrup season

BOSTON — It's yet another welcome sign of spring: The start of the local maple syrup season. The Massachusetts Maple Producers Association is celebrating its annual Maple Weekend on Saturday and Sunday. Sugarhouses around the state are holding open...

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Lisa Colagrossi, WABC-TV reporter, dies of brain hemorrhage at 49

Lisa Colagrossi, a reporter for ABC's flagship New York station, died Friday following a brain hemorrhage suffered while she was returning to the station after covering a house fire in Queens. She was 49. WABC-TV colleagues were stunned by her death....

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March Madness and the limits of new TV channel packages

There's a set of rituals that accompanies my preparations to watch March Madness on TV each year: tuning in CBS's "Selection Show," filling in my brackets to predict who will win, and looking up my cable operator's channel listings to figure out where...

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Techies snatching up more real estate in Southern California

LOS ANGELES — Internet moguls like Amazon's Jeff Bezos aren't the only techies snatching up real estate in Southern California. While the mega rich from Silicon Valley have made headlines for their purchases of extravagant Los Angeles homes, the city...

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Icy return of boats not all its quacked up to be

The launch of the duck boats is a rite of spring, but this year even the amphibious vehicles have fallen victim to the unseasonably cold and snowy winter. Boston Duck Tours will begin its 21st season today, but with some special measures to avoid frozen...

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Some slow to embrace FASTR

A new Congressional bill that would improve public access to the roughly $60 billion in research the federal government funds each year is drawing praise from researchers who say it will accelerate innovation, and criticism from some publishers who fear...

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On 5th anniversary of health care law, no end to debate

WASHINGTON — When President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act five years ago, he visualized a time when the political hyperbole would be silenced and ordinary people would see that the health care law improved their lives. The White House...

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