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WBUR TODAY: Big news offshore

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  ❤️ Donate Friday, November 6, 2026 🌧️ Rainy, with a high of 69. Good Morning Boston, Our streak of unseasonably warm, dry weather ends today, but at least it's Friday. Let's get to the news: C you later: The MBTA is kicking off another sprawling nine-day Green Line diversion this weekend — and permanently closing one stop. Both closures are related to the T's multimillion-dollar effort to make its aboveground stops ADA compliant. (The agency is also installing 17 miles of new cables as part of its project to replace the Green Line tunnel's Gilded Age-era signal system.) The diversion: This Saturday through next Sunday (Nov. 7-15), the entire Green Line tunnel will be closed, from North Station to Kenmore. The entire C branch out to Cleveland Circle and the E branch to Heath Street will also be suspended. And the B branch will be suspended between Kenmore and Babcock Street. Click here or scroll below for the T's guide to alternative transit options (many of ...

WBUR TODAY: 5 local takeaways from Tuesday

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  ❤️ Donate Thursday, November 5, 2026 ⛅ C loudy, with a high near 74 . Good Morning Boston, It was certainly a blue wave this week, but some Mainers may be seeing red about NBC News chief data analyst Steve Kornacki referring to southern Maine as " kind of like the Boston suburbia extended. " Let's blame it on exhaustion and forgive him? Now, let's go full Kornacki with WBUR's Gin Dumcius and dive deep into the data for some Massachusetts election results takeaways: 1. What a blue wave in Massachusetts looks like Parts of Massachusetts shifted red in 2024 when Kamala Harris faced off against Donald Trump in the presidential election. Fall River, for example, narrowly went for Trump in 2024 — the first time the city had gone for a Republican presidential candidate in 100 years. Meanwhile, Harris won but underperformed in the state’s cities with the most Hispanic voters, such as Lawrence, Lynn and Holyoke. But this year, Fall River snapped back to the Democrat...