Gov. Maura Healey had two points of focus during her State of the Commonwealth address Thursday night: lowering costs for residents and lowering the rhetorical boom on President Trump.

Cassandra Linton, who runs a company that supports adults with disabilities, said one of the people arrested on the first day of the surge was an employee. She said she's concerned about what would happen to her clients, some of whom are nonverbal, should their caregiver be arrested while they're out in public.

St. Francis House leaders were worried the shelter was adding to people's stress instead of helping them. They hired an architect to make the space more calming and to make it guide people to critical services.

Arctic air moves in Friday, followed by a nor'easter Sunday into Monday that could dump a foot of snow on Boston and the region.

The MBTA's transit plans for World Cup are still up in the air, just months before millions of visitors arrive in the Boston area.

Dmitrii Georgiev was on vacation when he said his GPS led him to a U.S. port of entry in Vermont. By the time he realized that, it was too late. He'd spend months in a black hole of ICE custody and felt he was "not in America."

In early December, I went to dinner with coworkers and said something along the lines of, “There’s this show I need to tell you about. It’s about hockey … kind of,” writes Sara Shukla. Soon after, this show about two rival gay hockey players kind of took over my life.

In her first term, Wu was untested — all possibility and potential. Now, her constituents expect her to deliver major improvements, and she does too.