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The Gloucester community knows the grief of losing the lives of those who set out from the country's oldest fishing port to sea. "It's one of the most dangerous, treacherous jobs anyone can do," said one person who laid flowers by the city's Fisherman's Memorial.

Since Lyons' promotion out of Boston, into the top ranks of ICE last year, immigration raids have deployed harsher tactics than some in local law enforcement expected him to approve. The agency has faced near-constant controversy on his watch.

A record number of ballot questions are proposed this year, in a state where people on both ends of the political spectrum argue the Legislature gets little done.

Dozens of volunteers from the group known as COPE hand out food, clothing and other supplies. People who are unhoused, many of them sleeping out in the cold, have come to rely on the weekly outreach effort.

Since the ICE operation began, many immigrants in Lewiston have opted to avoid school, work and stores so as not to be snatched by federal agents. And even after the surge might have ended, Somali-American immigrant advocate Effrax Saciid-Cisse said, "I do think they will come back."

For 40 years, Circa Vintage Wear has ridden the tides of public disdain and interest. Now customers flock to Chris Duval's unmarked shop for workwear jackets, silky dresses and retro shoes.

Local officials and advocates in Maine are reacting cautiously after hearing ICE may wind down its "enhanced" operations in Maine.

As the Trump administration comes under pressure to de-escalate the immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities, mayors of both parties sounded alarms.

Healey’s spending plan comes as state revenues are growing. But her administration is contending with an uncertain economic outlook, a president who’s increasingly hostile toward Democratic states and a rising rate of spending that fiscal hawks warn is unsustainable.

ICE says its made than 200 arrests in Maine since expending operations in the state last week. And while the agency has said it's going after criminals, many of those detained are asylum seekers with no criminal records, according to their lawyers, family members and employers.

For 32 years, Olive McSweeney Sheehan has run a family child care center out of her Boston home. She loves the work she does, but she faces a stark financial reality. And with property taxes going up 13% this year, she's worried about the future of her business.

Matthew Shifrin is on a mission to make Legos accessible for blind people through his nonprofit Bricks for the Blind.

Nearly all of Massachusetts got at least a foot of snow Sunday. For lots of kids, that made Monday a sledding holiday.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu joins WBUR's Morning Edition to provide an update on the city's response to the winter storm that's dumped a foot and a half of snow on the city.

It's going to snow much of Monday, with between 2-4 fresh inches dropping before the storm finally ends between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. But difficult conditions won't end then. It's going to be freezing all week.