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A meeting advertised by the city as an occasion for abutters to talk about the application for a beer and wine license for the Kriola Bar and Restaurant at 33 Hancock St. erupted into a contentious back-and-forth ... Read more.

Supreme Liquors, a family-run business that has been serving Dorchester since 1934, is in its fourth month of offering a new and improved look – and earning booming sales – at its Gallivan Boulevard store in the wake of ... Read more.

The opening of a small taqueria on Dot Ave., proposed by the owners of the Lower Mills Tavern, received a hearty blessing from the Lower Mills Civic Association at its monthly meeting on Tuesday night, teeing up the ... Read more.

The bustling Red Line, the MBTA’s busiest subway line, could transport an additional 10,000 passengers an hour and keep the time between trains to about three minutes if the agency upgrades the line’s entire fleet, ... Read more.

Trinity Financial and Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty celebrated the opening of a new sales office for Treadmark, an 83-unit mixed-income, mixed-use development now under construction across from Ashmont station, on ... Read more.

The city’s Department of Neighborhood Development (DND) will make more than $14 million in funds available to qualified housing projects this month as part of a push to create more affordable housing in Boston. The funds ... Read more.

Legislatively, it’s her post as chair of the Council’s Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice that touches on her passion projects. Campbell notes that her district is disproportionately affected by crime and ... Read more.

The future of high school track and field is in jeopardy, a Waltham-based sports retailer said, due to upheaval spurred by the ouster of the director of Roxbury Community College’s Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center ... Read more.

At Tuesday evening’s McCormack Civic Association meeting, many neighbors expressed frustration about increasing gentrification and the pressures of multiple construction projects converging on the Polish Triangle.

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The city’s Licensing Board is now hearing applications for the remaining 25 affordable liquor licenses, the last batch approved by the legislature and the best hope for a number of small restaurants who cannot swing the ... Read more.

“How did that get here?”

Starting this weekend folks strolling through Codman Square Park will notice the unexpected presence by the monument of a yellow and silver piano, flanked by little bins brimming with ... Read more.

Cruz Companies celebrated four apprentices completing the mid-point of their construction apprenticeship program last week. The partnership between Cruz Companies and YouthBuild Boston is designed to fill the minority ... Read more.

The Boston Transportation Department, in collaboration with the Vision Zero Task Force, wants to make the streets of Boston safer - starting with Dorchester’s Talbot-Norfolk Triangle (TNT) neighborhood.

The pilot ... Read more.

The state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) will present current design plans for a Morrissey Boulevard reconstruction project on Tuesday, Sept. 27. The meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at ... Read more.

The Boston Licensing Board could decide next week whether to grant liquor licenses to a proposed taqueria in Lower Mills, a new Italian restaurant in Adams Corner and a proposed Wahlburgers and movie complex at the new ... Read more.

A long-vacant Savin Hill eyesore has a new owner and a new lease on life.

A Dorchester-based developer has purchased the old Savin Hill Variety building at 102-110 Savin Hill Ave. and is poised to turn it into a ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports three men in their early 20s were shot around 2:20 a.m. on Saturday at Nightingale and Wales streets.

One of the men was pronounced dead at the scene, police say. The other two ... Read more.

Authorities are investigating the cause of a bizarre incident on Bakersfield Street last week involving dozens of birds that fell dead or dying from the trees. A cat also died after apparently interacting with them on the ... Read more.

Paul McDevitt, a recovering alcoholic who spent decades generously working with others fighting alcohol disease, died Monday morning of vocal cord cancer. The husband of State Auditor Suzanne Bump, Mr. McDevitt was 74. ... Read more.

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