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At the family child care center she runs out of her Dorchester home, Dottie Williams has started asking parents to send teddy bears along with their kids.

Ms. Dottie's NeighborSchool serves children between five ... Read more.

Mayor Martin Walsh today condemned a rash of violence that left 7 people dead in the city over the last week, including the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old Dorchester boy who was killed last Thursday in Roxbury.

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While managing the ongoing response to an outbreak of one sometimes-fatal virus state officials are gearing up for an active summer season for another one, but the messaging to keep residents safe shares many similarities ... Read more.

The body of adult male was discovered shortly after 6 a.m. today along the Neponset Greenway trail near Granite Avenue in Dorchester.

According to a spokesman for the State Police, the "investigation has revealed ... Read more.

Planners from Boston Parks & Recreation and the Franklin Park Coalition are seeking community feedback during two virtual Zoom workshops on July 14, at 12 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., kicking off a month of virtual engagement ... Read more.

A dramatic expansion of mail-in and early voting in Massachusetts is now law, and Secretary of State William Galvin is now preparing to quickly mail applications to all 4.5 million of the state's registered voters by a ... Read more.

Gov. Charlie Baker has until Sunday to decide whether to sign a massive expansion of early and mail-in voting that would alter the way campaigns and elections are run in 2020, but if he waits, he would give Secretary of ... Read more.

The Massachusetts Senate plans to vote Thursday on a wide-ranging police reform bill that would create a process for certifying and de-certifying officers and impose new limits on the use of force, including a ban on ... Read more.

The U.S. Senate should cancel its recess and immediately return to Washington D.C. to pass a massive economic stimulus package featuring aid to state and local governments, according to Sen. Edward Markey.

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The Boston Police Department reports Boston's seventh murder - and Dorchester's third - in less than a week: A woman shot to death at 37 Stonehurst St. around 3 a.m. on Sunday.

Kristian Maraj, 22, of Dorchester, ... Read more.

Two more people were murdered last night in Dorchester as an uptick in violent crime continued in Boston over the holiday ... Read more.

A man was shot to death last night near Norfolk and Woolson streets in Mattapan and Boston Police arrested an armed suspect at the scene after what BPD described as a tense standoff with the gunman. The victim, who has ... Read more.

Massachusetts will move into Phase 3 of its re-opening plan on Monday, but impacted businesses and patrons in the capitol city will have to wait an additional week.

Governor Baker and Mayor Walsh discussed the ... Read more.

Transportation advocates and their political allies renewed calls for dramatic reforms to the MBTA system— with a specific emphasis on “unfair fares”— during an event in Roxbury’s Nubian Square on July 1. City Councillor- ... Read more.

Seniors citizens should continue to stay home, mayor says

Mayor Martin Walsh on Thursday, joined by a host of public health and safety officials, urged Bostonians to continue taking measures to ... Read more.

Mayor Martin Walsh announced today the City of Boston July Drive-In Movie Series, a free, family-friendly initiative open to Boston residents that will screen movies at outdoor locations in South Boston and Roxbury on ... Read more.

Eager to hear next week’s news on COVID-19 today?

“This Week in Virology, or TWIV,” the longstanding podcast that previews next week’s COVID-19 news, and that some listeners refer to “The Car Talk of Virology,” ... Read more.

Mayor Martin Walsh last week rolled out three initiatives that he said are aimed at addressing systemic racism in Boston – an “equity and inclusion” cabinet in his administration; a new Racial Equity Fund; and the filing ... Read more.

Fed up, like many Bostonians, with the increase at all hours of illegal fireworks in the city, Mayor Walsh has set up a task force to address the issue ahead of the Fourth of July holiday. 

“Fireworks are a serious ... Read more.

Discriminating against people of color or anyone who relies on a voucher to pay their rent is illegal in Massachusetts, but new research suggests the practice is pervasive in the Greater Boston real estate market.

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