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A private transit company that already shuttles people around greater Boston during the daytime has proposed to do the same at night, in a partnership with the MBTA to provide a late-night transportation option that ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports two people, a woman believed to be in her 30s, and a male in his teens, were shot around 2:25 p.m. on Saturday outside 152 Washington St., near Morse Street.

The woman was taken ... Read more.

Fifty-nine units of affordable housing have been preserved in Dorchester and Mattapan through a $5.6 million sale of several properties, tying up a ... Read more.

After taking more than 400 site-specific sound measurements and evaluating 1,050 sound surveys from Boston residents, Erica Walker is very familiar with the city’s everyday honks, shouts, melodies, and murmurs. But the ... Read more.

For the business community working to make the Fairmount Indigo Corridor a thriving hub for employers and workers alike, the consistently underperforming rail line that forms the corridor’s spine remains a consistent ... Read more.

Gov. Charlie Baker was three-for-three canvassing for the charter school ballot question in Dorchester on Tuesday when he met Ingrid Beckles on her front porch.

Beckles, who said she was surprised to see the ... Read more.

The Boston Public Schools’ long-term financial report, titled "Investing in Student Success," lays out 10 “big ideas” to address growing budget shortfalls. If nothing changes, the department will face annual revenue and ... Read more.

City inspectors have not yet determined a cause for a bizarre incident last month when 47 grackles, a type of bird common to the area, fell to the ground on Bakersfield Street in Uphams Corner.

On Sept. 8, the ... Read more.

A developer’s plan to build a six-story, mixed use building near Edward Everett Square won approval from the Boston Planning & Development Agency’s board of directors last Thursday evening. The building at 1258-1272 ... Read more.

Mattapan and Dorchester residents gathered at the Mildred Ave. Community Center last Wednesday (Oct. 19) to learn about new business developments and hear from various city agencies in the latest of a series of meetings ... Read more.

Early voting in the presidential election of 2016 began in Boston on Monday, 13 days before the scheduled Nov. 8 election day, with polling stations open in East Boston, Chinatown, South End, and at City Hall. On ... Read more.

Over 164,000 people chose to make Boston their home — briefly — over the last year, through the short-term rental service Airbnb. As state legislators prepare to re-examine regulations for such services and the Boston ... Read more.

Ashmont Hill Chamber Music will partner with Boston City Singers for a program of Art Song on Sunday, November 6 at 4 p.m. in Peabody Hall, All Saints’ Church, 209 Ashmont St., Dorchester.

As fewer chamber music ... Read more.

With performances this Friday and Saturday, Avenue Stage, Dorchester’s most highly acclaimed (as well as its only) community theater group, debuts it latest dinner theatre collaboration with the Dot 2 Dot Café at 1739 ... Read more.

His Eminence Sean Cardinal O’Malley, OFM, Cap. presented Stephen Hughes of Dorchester, principal of Boston College High School, with the Cardinal Cushing Medal for Excellence in Service to Humanity on October 16. ... Read more.

Aidan’s Barbershop and City Legends Barbershop will join nine other local barbershops, salons and businesses in and around Boston to give thanks to veterans and their families by raising funds with style for the second ... Read more.

A 41-year old man who was shot on Oct. 18 while fixing his car on Dorchester Avenue has died.
Speaking before the St. Mark’s Area Civic Association on Tuesday night, Capt. Tim Connolly, the commander at C-11, ... Read more.

A development team planning to build a mixed-use residential complex on what is now an MBTA parking lot in Mattapan Square will not hold a community meeting in November as previously planned.

In an email sent out ... Read more.

Wanted man

The Boston Police Department reports it's looking for man for a purse snatching in the Florian Hall parking lot Sunday afternoon.

Police say a 75-year-old woman was going to her car around 3:30 p.m. ... Read more.

Edgardo Clark pleaded guilty Thursday to voluntary manslaughter for killing Gerald Williamson outside Chung Wah ... Read more.

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