Cambridge officials confirmed an active investigation into a fatal police-involved shooting that closed a Central Square street Friday night. City Hall said in a statement that the probe remains ongoing, and NBC Boston reported in "Cambridge police shooting in Central Square prompts inv…

A Cambridge-based MIT spinout landed $31 million this week to develop a compact nuclear reactor, the city's most notable business news as summer winds down. The City of Cambridge will run overnight paving in Central Square beginning Sunday, August 23, at 8 p.m. through roughly 4 a.m. Mo…

Moderna's stock surged up to 160 percent after a melanoma vaccine trial succeeded, wiping out $5 billion in short bets, Bloomberg reports. The Cambridge biotech's rally, tied to a jointly developed vaccine with partner Merck aimed at preventing melanoma's return, was the day's biggest l…

Harvard University agreed to pay $53 million to settle lawsuits over a former morgue manager's theft of donated body parts, the biggest of several fresh entanglements for the Cambridge school this week. Reuters reported the settlement Tuesday, while the South China Morning Post reports …