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With unusually high levels of uncertainty circling around the federal funding that buoys more than $16 billion of the state budget, Gov. Maura Healey's finance secretary said Thursday that federal cuts would be too big of ... Read more.

Police arrested a 16-year-old from Mattapan on Wednesday evening (March 5) after a brazen shooting incident on Erie and Ellington Streets that upended the neighborhood from Columbia Road to Codman Square for two hours. ... Read more.

Last week, a new angle in the debate over White Stadium’s merits opened up with reporting and analysis focused on the Wu ... Read more.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu defended the city's approach to immigration enforcement, and called for congressional action to address problems with the nation's immigration system, as she and other mayors faced an intensely ... Read more.

On Sept. 8, 1975, as many as 10,000 people showed up on City Hall Plaza to oppose a plan for expanding desegregation of the Boston Public Schools (BPS). Coinciding with the run-up to city elections, Boston’s largest ... Read more.

Mayor Wu won a ringing endorsement from the city’s largest public safety unions— the Boston Police Patrolmen Association (BPPA) and the association’s affiliated EMS partners— during a press conference held at the BPPA’s ... Read more.

Residents and elected officials with roots in the Dominican Republic gathered in Dorchester last Thursday morning (Feb. 27) for a second annual breakfast celebrating Dominican Independence Day that was hosted by ... Read more.

Annissa Essaibi George will chair this year’s New England Women’s Leadership Awards (NEWLA) event, which benefits the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester (BGCD). The program will be held on Tuesday evening, May 13, at ... Read more.

Small breweries were already struggling before the Trump administration imposed a 25 percent tariff on foreign steel and aluminum last week. Several Massachusetts brewers say they’re worried about how price spikes for ... Read more.

I found it more than ironic that Donald Trump’s swearing in as US president occurred on Jan. 20, the day we celebrate Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday. To me and to so many others it felt like a desecration.

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It has been many years since I read Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America.” As I recall, it was set in the late 1930s and early 1940s and suggested that the presidential candidacy of Charles A. Lindbergh, the American ... Read more.

A Bowdoin Street restaurant is hoping to be one of several businesses selected to receive a full liquor license in an upcoming second round of awards as part of an official push to expand opportunities in underserved ... Read more.

Early last month, four UMass Boston Track & Field athletes left Dorchester and headed to Brighton for a competition at The Track at New Balance in the 2025 Showdown at The Heights. 

Though the Beacons typically ... Read more.

The dozens of Peace Walls in Belfast, Northern Ireland, make up a series of barriers that separate predominantly Catholic neighborhoods from the Protestant neighborhoods. They are not for the most part what they once were ... Read more.

Several Dorchester and South Boston residents who are members of IBC New England were participants as the group made donations to two local hospitals to support efforts to research and enhance understanding of breast ... Read more.

To the Editor:

Your article “Is Affordable Housing Unaffordable?” (Feb 26) overemphasizes the role of the Inclusionary Development Policy/Inclusionary Zoning (IDP/IZ) in creating affordable (income-restricted) ... Read more.

Hundreds of people gathered on Boston City Hall plaza this morning for a rally organized to support immigrant communities and Mayor Wu as she began a long day of testimony and questioning in front of a Congressional ... Read more.

Boston Police detectives are asking for the public's help to identify two men suspected in an armed home invasion on Tuesday afternoon at 447 Adams St. in Dorchester.

Police say the two unknown suspects "posed as ... Read more.

"Thank you, Chairman Comer, ranking Member Connolly and members of the committee. My name is Michelle Wu. I am the daughter of immigrants, and since November of 2021, I have had the honor of serving as mayor of Boston. ... Read more.

Last week, community members were invited to the Boston Public Library’s Grove Hall branch to check out the floor plans and view a 3D model of the future Boston Centers for Youth & Families Grove Hall Community Center ... Read more.

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