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A proposed zoning amendment that targets White Stadium is drawing concern from several activists and organizations as a related plan to re-purpose the city facility for use by a professional soccer team continues to work ... Read more.

MBTA General Manager Phillip Eng said he welcomes discussions about re-casting the Red Line tunnel cap as an extension of the existing tunnel cap pathway from Melville Avenue to Shawmut Station and down to Centre Street ... Read more.

The Boston City Council in recent years has not always been known for reaching amiable agreements on high-profile policy debates. But when it comes to a nearly $800 million higher education funding proposal that Beacon ... Read more.

The Neponset River Watershed Association hosts a special ‘King Tide’ program at Tenean Beach in Dorchester on Sat., Feb. 10, at 10:30 a.m. to observe the tidal flooding and its impacts and discuss ways to remediate them. ... Read more.

The Comfort Kitchen Restaurant in Uphams Corner, which opened last January, has been named a semifinalist for Best New Restaurant in 2023 in the prestigious 2024 James Beard Restaurant and Chef Awards. Overall, the ... Read more.

Despite facing major financial challenges, Steward Health Care is not currently planning to shutter any of its Massachusetts hospitals, a company executive said last Friday in response to elected officials sounding the ... Read more.

Tavon Rhodes and Alicia Browder of the Neighborhood House Charter School (NHCS) in Dorchester have spent this basketball season putting up big numbers on the scoreboard. 

Rhodes, a small forward on the boys’ team, ... Read more.

A trio of MBTA bus routes in Boston will continue to operate without charging fares for another two years thanks to an investment of more than $8 million from the city, Mayor Michelle Wu announced Tuesday.

While ... Read more.

Arrests of young people dropped by two-thirds in Massachusetts over roughly the past decade, but people of color made up an increasing share of those arrests in the same span, according to new research.

In an ... Read more.

A Suffolk Superior Court jury has concluded that two Stoughton real-estate brokers took advantage of an uneducated contractor with mortgage problems to force him out of his home on Greenbrier Street in Dorchester and turn ... Read more.

Gov. Healey has appointed Dálida Rocha to serve on the state’s Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE). Rocha, a Cape Verdean immigrant, mother of three, and UMass Boston graduate, grew up in Dorchester and ... Read more.

Mason Bultje, Sportsmen’s Tennis and Enrichment Center (STEC) Annual Fund manager, has been appointed to the USTA New England Board of Directors. Bultje grew up in Minnesota, where he started playing tennis at three years ... Read more.

The neighborhood’s Lunar (Tét) New Year celebrations kicked off last Sat., Jan. 27, at the Fields Corner branch of the Boston Public Library with a family celebration hosted by the BPL and the Boston Little Saigon ... Read more.

Last Thursday at First Baptist Church on Ashmont Street in Dorchester, the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO) began its campaign for “housing justice” with call and response, testimonies, and a scorecard for ... Read more.

Boston College High School will be one of 17 schools that will compete on the 15th season of the Emmy-award winning “High School Quiz Show,” which will be aired starting this month on GBH.

The BC High boys will ... Read more.

With winter temperatures now in full chill-mode, Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) is urging residents to apply for funds from the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) to help cover ... Read more.

Having reached the final chapters of my life, I think back on all I have absorbed within the context of my professional career as lawyer, judge, and, in retirement, as an arbitrator, mediator, and occasional columnist. ... Read more.

The “Renovation Husbands” – David and Stephen St. Russell – got off to an auspicious start in their journey to win “Battle on the Mountain” last week. The couple, who live in Dorchester, are one of three who are competing ... Read more.

A Dorchester driving instructor was formally charged on Wednesday - and immediately agreed to plead guilty - to bribery to obtain driver's licenses for three of his students even though they hadn't taken the required ... Read more.

MBTA General Manager Phillip Eng visited Savin Hill’s Cristo Rey School last Thursday for an open house focused on upcoming track work on the Red Line that he says will eventually eliminate the 53 existing “slow zones” ... Read more.

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