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Bluebikes is celebrating more than 25 million rides this week since it launched in 2011. The service has improved access to equitable transportation across 500 stations in 13 municipalities. The 4,500 bikes promote ... Read more.

Bluebikes is celebrating more than 25 million rides this week since it launched in 2011. The service has improved access to equitable transportation across 500 stations in 13 municipalities. The 4,500 bikes promote ... Read more.

Walsh Playground in Dorchester will close mid-October for a $3 million renovation project that is expected to take about nine months to complete, according to city officials. In a notification sent out to neighbors last ... Read more.

The MBTA says its 24-day service suspension along the Red Line last month eliminated an additional 37 “slow zones” between JFK-UMass and Braintree stations, and a few more on the Ashmont branch as well. Shuttle buses ... Read more.

In 1993, just a few days before Christmas, 15-year-old Louis D. Brown was killed in a crossfire, while crossing Geneva Avenue near Fields Corner Station. A high school sophomore looking forward to college, he was on his ... Read more.

Lana Andrews didn’t think she could find a better home than her old apartment in Savin Hill. That is until she discovered the new Nine Leyland Community that opened last month near Uphams Corner. Facing the Leyland Street ... Read more.

A working group meant to advise state and city leaders on the impacts of the closure of Carney Hospital— and next steps to replace it— is still in formation this week, seven days after Gov. Maura Healey announced its ... Read more.

Rendering of proposed Granite Avenue condos

A developer has filed plans to build a five-story, 25-unit condo building at 157 Granite Ave. in Dorchester, steps from the Granite Avenue Bridge over the Neponset ... Read more.

Memories of a century of heroism and sacrifice fluttered throughout Meetinghouse Hill today as a large crowd of retired and active duty firefighters and their families gathered to usher in the future with a state-of-the- ... Read more.

Rendering of proposed Boston Street apartment building

A developer has filed plans for a six-story, 59-unit apartment building at 101-109 Boston St., right next door to the Fortress self-storage building with the giant ... Read more.

The U.S. Senate agreed Wednesday to ask federal prosecutors to consider criminal contempt charges against Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre over his refusal to testify about the system's bankruptcy, even after a ... Read more.

A wave of around 50 elderly Boston homeowners swept through Senate offices Wednesday asking lawmakers to advance Mayor Michelle Wu's property tax plan, while a Boston councilor took the floor at City Hall a couple hours ... Read more.

Mayor Touts City Safety After Flynn Flags "Significant" Challenges

The number of workers returning to Boston offices in person increased 10 percentage points this year, nearly double the national ... Read more.

Next weekend a Dorchester three-decker will take center stage in Cambridge as The Foundry and True Rep Theatre present Jim Sullivan’s “Ellen’s Boys” on Oct. 4, 5, and 6. 

The play, directed by Donald Sheehan, takes ... Read more.

Launches debut album, ‘On Everything I Love’

On a warm evening in late July, about 80 people gathered in Dareales, a sneaker and clothing store on Dorchester Avenue, to hear the debut album of ... Read more.

Six justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will hear arguments on Mon., Oct. 7, on Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s push to force Milton to comply with a 2021 zoning law. It’s a case that the high court ... Read more.

US Rep. Ayanna Pressley said on Monday that a newly published report prepared by the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) should prompt her colleagues in government to take action on legislation she has crafted ... Read more.

As the famous saying goes, “We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.” Politics is a lot like sailing, and Massachusetts’s 2024 Democratic primary was rough waters for a few elected officials.

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Voters will soon decide whether to legalize plant-based psychedelic drugs in Massachusetts. A majority “yes” vote on Question 4 on the November ballot would approve the use of natural psychedelic substances, like ... Read more.

A MassINC Polling Group poll published on Monday showed that nearly 6 in 10 voters said they would pick Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, if the election were held at the time the survey was taken ( ... Read more.

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