While figures released yesterday show both home sales and median home prices in the city dipped significantly in June from a year ago, local Realtors say the city's housing market is relatively healthy.

PDF: Home prices across the state

When Mary Bowe-Shulman got married in 2004, she rushed to extend her health coverage as a state worker to her wife, Dorene, a self-employed, two-time cancer survivor.

PDF: Read the state's challenge of the Defense of Marriage Act

The city billed as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution is pulling out all the stops when it comes to celebrating its 125th birthday. 

PDF: Historic Waltham Days Schedule

Standing on the sidelines clutching a digital camera, Maria Rosati eagerly cheered on Waltham High School's Class of 2009 as if it were her own. "Yeah, Class of 1979," she shouted during commencement ceremonies yesterday. "I mean 2009!"

PDF: List of graduates

The Board of Health released a report last night challenging statements by the head of Newton-Wellesley Hospital and a related deal struck by the Planning Board compensating the town for a proposed surgical center.

PDF: Read the Board of Health's findings

A proposal for Massachusetts to join an agreement with other states to elect the president by popular vote is back before state lawmakers.

PDF: Read the House version of the popular vote bill

An interim report from a committee exploring the future of the embattled Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University has left some supporters with more questions than answers.

PDF: Future of the Rose Committee report

It's 52 words, and, says Bill Wilt, takes no more than 17 seconds to recite "at a reasonable pace."

It's the preamble to the Constitution, and the Waltham resident wants the City Council - along with other governments across the state - to recite it before every meeting.

PDF: Read the resolution

It's a paradox: Massachusetts prides itself on its intellectual power, yet ranks 38th out of 50 states when it comes to having online accessibility to public records, according to a national survey released Sunday.

PDF: How does Mass. measure up to other states?

Despite a struggling economy and slumping housing market nationally, Waltham only saw a slight dip in its total real estate value in fiscal 2009 from the previous year. The total valuation of all properties stood at just over $8.9 billion in fiscal '09, down from a little more than $9 billion or so in fiscal '08, said Joe Goode, chairman of the Board of Assessors.

PDF: The city's assessed valuations for Fiscal '09, by street