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The immigration arrest of a man facing trial in Boston has led to a high-stakes legal showdown that is pitting a local prosecutor and a local judge against top federal prosecutors in Massachusetts.

As Suffolk ... Read more.

The Codman Square Neighborhood Council (CSNC) added a short last-minute visit by Police Commissioner Michael Cox and a regiment of police brass, captains and local officers to its meeting agenda on Wed., April 2, to ... Read more.

A Suffolk County jury on Monday convicted a 35-year-old Quincy man of first-degree murder for the fatal shooting of Arnold Woodrum, 59, of Dorchester on Devon St. on in June 2019. Prosecutors say Lalance Smith fired the ... Read more.

A six-story mixed-use building with a small grocery and fitness studio on the ground level is expected to open next month at 500 Talbot Ave. a few blocks from Ashmont station on the former site of a Lutheran church.

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If every “Happy Budget Day” is alike, the City of Boston’s event for FY26 was unhappy in its own way. After four years of steepening budget increases enabled by surge in development set in motion before the Covid-19 ... Read more.

 No matter the place, no matter the time, Yvonne Grealish was always ringside. A native of England who moved to Boston as a young woman and raised a family in Dorchester with her husband, Martin Grealish, she died in ... Read more.

Groundbreaking this week at Mt. Vernon Street site

The Fieldhouse+ project on Columbia Point has been a dream drawn on paper for seven years now, but the facility was brought into three-dimensional ... Read more.

City Health Division inspectors shut down the Family Dollar store at 995 Blue Hill Ave. near Franklin Field on Thursday for a laundry list of code violations, including rats in the store observed to have eaten food on the ... Read more.

The shuttle buses are off the avenue and the trains are back on the rails today on the Ashmont branch of the Red Line after a nine day “surge” that MBTA general manager Phil Eng said “went extremely well.”

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Gov. Maura Healey was partway through a closed-door meeting with Cabinet secretaries and business leaders about the impact of sweeping tariffs when President Donald Trump suddenly reversed course and paused most of his ... Read more.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced her $4.8 billion budget for fiscal year 2026 on Wednesday morning, one she said aims to provide stability while preparing for uncertainty in the future of federal funding.

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The long-held spring tradition of the Father-Daughter event was held last Saturday evening (April 5) in Father Lane Hall in St. Brendan’s Church.
Dads in suits and daughters in fancy dresses dined on pizza and ... Read more.

A celebration of life is planned Sunday at UMass Boston to remember Phil Johnston, a veteran consultant who served in the Legislature and in top state and federal health and human services posts.

Johnston, 80, died ... Read more.

The Irish theatrical sensation known as “Riverdance” was first performed as intermission entertainment during the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest held at the Point Theatre in Dublin. The seven-minute dance number was not ... Read more.

Six indictments were returned last month by a Suffolk County Grand Jury against Maritza Juliao, 52, of Brockton, who is charged with stealing nearly $127,000 from the Crispus Attucks Children’s Center (CACC) in Dorchester ... Read more.

Election years are important. Candidates for office always tell you what they want to do, but oftentimes what they say is in reaction to what the media or their opponents are saying, not necessarily what voters are ... Read more.

The state’s Health and Human Services Secretary, Kate Walsh, had some interesting things to say about the future of hospitals— and specifically the now-shuttered Carney Hospital in Dorchester— this week during a public ... Read more.

Dorchester resident Tracei Gamble and Mattapan native Bianca Sullivan have joined METCO’s board of directors.

Gamble is an accounts payable specialist at MIT’s Broad Institute and at Harvard University. A METCO ... Read more.

City Ballet of Boston under the artistic direction of Tony Williams will stage “Dance Distinctive” over two days (April 12-13) at the Strand Theatre in Uphams Corner.

Billed as an “unforgettable celebration of ... Read more.

Gov. Healey, Mayor Michelle Wu, and UMass Boston Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco joined hundreds of global climate experts, regional leaders, scientists, and academics on March 27 for a ResilientMass Summit at UMass ... Read more.

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