Boston to begin removing space savers Monday

A wooden chair was at work as a space saver in the South End in late January.

Sean Proctor/Globe Staff

The items that residents have used to mark their parking spots will be picked up by trash collectors, the mayor?s office said.

Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh (right) and Jim Greene, director of Boston?s Emergency Shelter Commission, talked to Edward John Jeske, a homeless man, Wednesday.

Boston takes a census of its homeless population

More than 300 city officials and volunteers walked Boston?s streets Wednesday night in the annual count of homeless residents.

John Warmington, a machinist for Keolis, used a power washer to clean snow and ice off a commuter train on Friday.

Sean Proctor/Globe Staff

Under fire after snow delays, transit systems name new leaders

The MBTA and its commuter rail operator named new general managers after criticism during recent snowstorms.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2014/12/09/BostonGlobe.com/National/Images/460195024.jpg Jonathan Gruber, 3 others removed from Connector Board

A spokesman said Governor Baker asked all gubernatorial appointees to step down and did not target MIT professor Jonathan Gruber.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/02/26/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/tsarnaev-8231-8236.jpg Opening remarks in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial set for March 4

Jury selection is nearly complete in the trial of the accused Marathon bomber, the court said.

MIAA to implement criminal checks for referees

The move comes two months after a Globe review found at least eight high school referees had been convicted of serious crimes.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/02/25/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/abel-boston1.jpg Once again, region finds itself chilled

High temperatures might get into the 20s on Thursday and Friday, according to forecasters.

Adrienne Schlow at work on a piece.

Todd Mazer

Their art adorns restaurant walls

Three artists whose work at restaurants should never be mistaken as decor.

A screech owl sat on a perch mending a fractured wing at the New England Wildlife Center in Weymouth.

Animal shelters see large numbers of suffering wildlife

People aren?t the only creatures who?ve had a difficult time during our cold and snowy winter.

President George W. Bush, center, with his father former President George H.W. Bush, left, and his brother Jeb Bush, then governor of Florida, are seen in a photo from Oct. 7, 2006, following a christening ceremony the aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush.

Wary conservatives await Jeb Bush?s pitch

Bush will tout his record while not shying away from moderate positions when he speaks to GOP activists Friday.

Hiawatha Bray | Tech lab

Have a backup plan for your backups

By all means, make copies of your photos and documents ? just don?t count on those backups being permanent.

Boston construction titan Suffolk Construction plans to keep its headquarters in Roxbury, eschewing a previously-planned move to the Seaport District.

John Tlumacki/Globe Staff

Suffolk Construction ditches South Boston move

Roxbury?s largest private employer will stay put and expand, not move to the waterfront.

NICK CAFARDO | ON BASEBALL

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/02/25/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/ortiz8754-6462.jpg David Ortiz bashes baseball?s new rules to speed up games

Ortiz vowed, ?I?m not going to change my game,? in regard to the rule about not stepping out of the batter?s box.

Larry Lucchino, left, and Chairman Thomas Werner.

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

Larry Lucchino and Tom Werner weigh in on Red Sox

The CEO and the chairman discussed the team?s power structure, comparisons to the Yankees, and Yoan Moncada.

Audra McDonald Photo credit: Autumn de Wilde 2015tanglewood -- 12WTF

At Symphony Hall, Audra McDonald has ?a little bit of everything?

At 44, with a record six Tony Awards to her name, McDonald ranks among the greatest theater artists of her generation.

The Big Picture

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Wintry woes for the MBTA

A look back at our recent public transit woes, due to an unusually harsh winter.