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Regatta draws rowers, throngs to banks of the Charles — Gallery

Some of the world's best rowers convene at boathouses in Boston and Cambridge this weekend to engage in the 51st Head of the Charles Regatta, a two-day fest of brawn, stamina and skill with oar and helm that pits 11,000 athletes against one another and the unrelenting

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Hub’s would-be fliers offered a chance to soar in Red Bull fest

BOSTON – The competitors will soar into the air – they hope – this summer, during the Red Bull Flugtag, a homemade flying craft battle slated to take place in the Hub for the first time in the annual event's 25-year history. Wannabe aviators will take wing – or not – on Aug.

Massachusetts

Cross-state canoe journey ends with call on GE to clean Housatonic

BOSTON — Paddling a canoe across Massachusetts with a message for the state's most prized new corporate arrival to clean up the Housatonic River, an environmentalist on Wednesday said he had seen improvements to the Bay State's waterways over the past three decades. Wearing a backwards camouflage

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Charles River environmental group accuses EPA of negligence

BOSTON — A lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court by a Charles River environmental advocacy group accuses the Environmental Protection Agency of failing to notify high-density commercial and residential property developers of their responsibility to obtain stormwater discharge permits, a move that comes ahead of the federal government's plan