Rucking, a military-inspired workout that involves heavy backpacks, is growing popular among menopausal women, experts say.

For many military families, summer can be stressful, as they are often relocating to different duty stations. Operation Homefront, the national nonprofit campaign has been distributing backpacks ...

Hundreds of students from Waltham, Watertown and Newton got a jump on their back-to-school prep Monday — boosted by the Salvation Army’s program to distribute 850 backpacks full of supplies.