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The Boys & Girls Club of Dorchester (BGCD) and a roster of legendary Boston Bruins alumni will face off for the first time in a charity hockey game at the Devine Ice Rink in Dorchester on Sat., Jan. 28 at 4:30 p.m. ... Read more.

Major Boston landlords would no longer be allowed to kick out tenants to renovate housing units and would need to notify the city about pending evictions under one of five legislative proposals backed by Boston Mayor ... Read more.

Two weeks ahead of the first round of school assignments, Boston Public School officials are still going back and forth with community members over the controversial decision to close the Mattahunt Elementary School and ... Read more.

Mayor Martin J. Walsh gave a rousing account of his administration’s first-term accomplishments to a receptive audience of nearly 1,000 civic and political leaders on Tuesday night at Boston’s Symphony Hall.

The ... Read more.

A person was seriously injured in a hit-and-run crash on Dorchester Avenue on Tuesday evening, police said.

Officers were called for a pedestrian struck around 7:02 p.m. in the area of 1855 Dorchester ... Read more.

The state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission has ruled the Boston Licensing Board erred in requiring the new owners of a Washington Street liquor store to stop selling liquor in tiny bottles.

The ruling ... Read more.

Seated in front of Mayor Marty Walsh as he delivered his State of the City address on Tuesday night was City Councillor Tito Jackson, an ally of Candidate Walsh in 2013 who formally announced a challenge to the mayor in ... Read more.

Discussions about residential parking are churning inside Dorchester’s neighborhoods that increasingly are pressed for space. With resident-only parking permits decided piecemeal, stashing a car can be a trial for renters ... Read more.

Elected officials and area residents are keeping a wary eye on plans for the former Bayside Expo Center property on Columbia Point as a proposal for a New England Revolution soccer stadium on the prime waterfront land is ... Read more.

The Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association this week considered a number of small development proposals and began to tackle in earnest how best to leverage the existing Columbia Point Master Plan in the face of major ... Read more.

Dorchester resident Khoa Pham, 33, has recently been appointed to serve as Mayor Marty Walsh’s liaison to the Vietnamese community and the Fields Corner village of Dorchester. Pham’s family immigrated to Boston in 1994 ... Read more.

One of the neighborhood’s most perilous traffic crosshairs— the intersection of Morton Street and Gallivan Boulevard— will be redesigned and rebuilt over the next two years as state engineers take aim at improving safety ... Read more.

Critical of an ongoing review of the state’s criminal justice system, some members of the Massachusetts Black and Latino Legislative Caucus say they plan to continue their push for sentencing reform and still see avenues ... Read more.

Karen Henry-Garrett’s soulful Dot2Dot Cafe has been running for nine years as a bright spot at 1739 Dorchester Ave. It not only serves excellent homemade food, but is a hub of community initiatives that include art, music ... Read more.

The award-winning Irish dancer and Dorchester resident Kieran Jordan has a new title to add to her name: Business Owner. Jordan, who makes her home in Lower Mills with her husband, the artist Vincent Crotty, has opened a ... Read more.

Curtis Henderson, Jr., the longtime general manager of Boston Neighborhood Network (BNN) will retire effective May 31. Susan M. O’Connor will serve as Transition Manager to oversee ongoing operations at the network. ... Read more.

Dorchester’s Epiphany School has a new solar array on its roof. The 25 kilowatt panels were installed by Hopkinton-based Solect Energy, which specializes in helping small businesses and organizations reduce energy costs ... Read more.

Are the signs of marijuana intoxication so familiar to the public that prosecutors can rely on the observations of police in stoned driving cases, or are experts required?

That’s a question the state’s highest ... Read more.

With a South Boston planning study for its stretch of Dorchester Avenue moving on to the zoning stage, the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) is turning its sights onto the Glover’s Corner area along the avenue ... Read more.

The Dot Block development in Glover’s Corner is aiming for an early summer construction start date after a new investor bought into the mixed-used project, providing the financial infusion needed to break ground.

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