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The third installment of the Night Market/Cho Dem street festival will take place this Saturday (July 13) from 4 p.m to 9 p.m. along Dorchester Avenue in Fields Corner with the avenue closed from Adams to Gibson streets ... Read more.

There will be no shortage of fresh foods, handcrafted goods, or community-building this week and next as Dorchester and Mattapan welcomes the seasonal return of an impressive lineup of markets and farm stands beginning in ... Read more.

Cape Verdean Prime Minister José Ulisses Correia e Silva spent part of his time in Boston and New England last week urging more tourism and investment in his country by those with ancestral roots in the island nation, but ... Read more.

Tomorrow Peeples-Taylor, head coach of the Boston Lions Track Club, is helping neighborhood kids get their lives on track by introducing them to competitive running at an early age.

Says the 52-year-old Boston ... Read more.

Backlash is mounting this week following the abrupt demotion from the Boston Police Department’s command staff of a veteran officer who had recently been appointed to the Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) ... Read more.

A man and a woman were shot at Gladeside Avenue and Donwood Terrace in Mattapan around 12:25 p.m. on Friday.

The man was shot several times; the woman once in ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department report arresting a man on charges of kidnapping and assault and battery ... Read more.

A person was shot at the Mobil station at 783 Blue Hill Ave. at American Legion Highway around 5:15 a.m. on Friday.

Boston Police Department officers who ... Read more.

Boston Police continue to investigate a brazen daytime shootout on Monday (July 1) along the Columbia Road corridor that left one man with a gunshot wound to the leg that required the application of a tourniquet by the ... Read more.

It was after almost seven hours of budget grind and a barrage of mostly failed amendments on June 26 when City Councillor Liz Breadon dropped the f-bomb, then defused it with a quick apology.

At issue in was an ... Read more.

On June 14, seniors from ABCD’s University High School (UHS) crossed the graduation stage at the ABCD Thelma D. Burns Building in Roxbury with diplomas in hand and plans for the future in mind. The alternative high school ... Read more.

For many Bostonians of Cape Verdean descent, a common refrain in carrying the banner for their culture has been explaining what it means to be Cape Verdean. For several of the recipients of this year’s first-ever ‘Cabo ... Read more.

The Zoning Board of Appeal last week approved plans by Louis D. Brown Peace Institute for a three-story Center of Healing, Teaching, and Learning on what are now two city-owned vacant lots on Westville Street in ... Read more.

Five years ago, I began taking weekly walks on Blue Hill Avenue for the purpose of seeing the state of anything and everything for public services, streetscapes, types of businesses, housing types, who is walking or using ... Read more.

Teams from Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and New York came to play in iconic Fenway Paek last month but it’s likely that those who had the shortest commute appreciated their visit the most.

On Wed., June 12, ... Read more.

The US Navy dropped anchor in Boston on Monday, bringing Navy Week – and 50 to 75 sailors from across the country – to the city through next Sunday, when it will be anchors aweigh. The sailors have volunteered to talk ... Read more.

Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin diagnosed the issues he sees repelling some voters from the two major political parties and gave his outlook on the health of American democracy in a televised interview ... Read more.

The MBTA and the City of Boston hosted the latest in a series of public meetings to seek feedback to their $44 million public works project along Blue Hill Avenue last Thursday (June 27) at the Franklin Park Clubhouse in ... Read more.

The MBTA and the City of Boston hosted the latest in a series of public meetings to seek feedback to their $44 million public works project along Blue Hill Avenue last Thursday (June 27) at the Franklin Park Clubhouse in ... Read more.

The Zoning Board of Appeal last week approved a landowner’s plans to replace a Richdale convenience store and a parking lot at 1420 Dorchester Ave near Adams Street, with a 5-story, 46-unit apartment building.

The ... Read more.

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