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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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It has been nearly 30 years since Marvin Martin stood on an overpass by Erie and Washington streets in Dorchester and watched as a Fairmount commuter train whizzed by underneath him without stopping. Martin, who is Black ... Read more.

Bay State Democrats circled the wagons Tuesday, ratcheting up their public opposition to the president's tariffs and federal cuts ahead of his Tuesday night primetime address and sticking up for Boston before a Wednesday ... Read more.

Criminal justice reform advocate Andrea James, a Dorchester Democrat, has filed paperwork for a potential primary bid against Gov. Maura Healey, who last month announced she's seeking a second term.

James, a former ... Read more.

Rendering of proposed six-story apartment building

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a six-story, 59-unit apartment building on what is now a parking lot next to the Fortress self-story building off I-93 in Dorchester, once famous for its giant ... Read more.

One of 5 responses to city’s call for health-career academy’s new home

The city of Boston is reviewing five proposals — including one from a team that includes the current owner of the largely ... Read more.

Two developers last week filed detailed plans for two 18-story residential towers with a total of 754 apartments where WLVI used to have its studios on Morrissey Boulevard - the first phase of a re-do of a roughly 9-acre ... Read more.

A civil rights group filed a lawsuit in federal court in Boston on Monday that seeks to block the Trump administration's accelerated roll-back of protections for Haitian and Venezuelan immigrants who are living in the US ... Read more.

Zachary Dimona-Viveiros died Dec. 12 from injuries he suffered when another man on an inbound Red Line train sitting at JFK/UMass suddenly decided to bash him in the head with a fist-sized piece of quartz around 8:50 p.m ... Read more.

A former mixed martial arts (MMA) professional fighter hailing from the Codman Square area returned to the neighborhood last month to shine a spotlight on the Level Ground MMA gym, which is free of charge to those 19 and ... Read more.

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