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Updated: Boston Police reported on Friday that Ms. Bynoe was found and is safe.

Boston Police are asking for the public's help to locate an elderly woman who suffers from Alzheimer's Disease and was last ... Read more.

Jodie Baehre is a powerhouse. At the age of 33, she’s a full-time artist advocating for the cultural community of Boston with her ultra-vivid and innovative perspective on Boston’s city landscape – its rooftops, steeples ... Read more.

Dorchester developer Douglas George is proposing a large residential development for a swath of Massachusetts Avenue occupied until recently by a car dealership and industrial firms.

The Development company ... Read more.

Paralympic runner Chaz Davis, who is legally blind, won the annual Martin Richard Memorial One Mile Invitational, which was held on Aug. 18 at Moakley Park in South Boston. The event honors the life of Dorchester’s own ... Read more.

Citizens Energy co-founder and former Perkins School for the Blind President Steven Rothstein has been selected as the new executive director of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, the organization announced Tuesday ... Read more.

With one week until the Sept. 8 primary election, several Dorchester and Mattapan incumbents are seeking to stave off challenges to their seats while others are running unopposed, among them state Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry ... Read more.

The campaign supporting a ballot question to allow additional charter schools in Massachusetts on Tuesday launched a new television ad aimed at highlighting the successes of charter schools and the options they provide ... Read more.

MBTA patrons exiting the Fields Corner Station on the Geneva Avenue/Vinson Street side are noticing that the bus stop island park just got a whole lot more festive and intriguing, thanks to the recent installation of some ... Read more.

Since 1990, the Summer Search program has had a deeply positive impact on dozens of high school students who have spent their summer vacations far from home, learning, teaching, building, and doing environmental projects ... Read more.

A newly published Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) report that examines residential and employment patterns— and related commuter flows— in Greater Boston reveals some interesting statistics about Dorchester and ... Read more.

The summer's prolonged drought continues to deplete the state's water resources.

According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, all of Massachusetts was "abnormally dry" as of last week, and 75 percent of the state was ... Read more.

Officials from Cedar Grove Cemetery are seeking a zoning designation change for two parcels of land abutting Granite Avenue. The change from burial ground to a one-family lot and parking availability would pave the way ... Read more.

Contractors have begun work on a $500,000 public works project in Mattapan Square. The 800-foot median strip along Blue Hill Avenue between River and Babson streets will be rebuilt and lined with plantings supported by a ... Read more.

Massachusetts voters will weigh ballot measures on gambling, charter schools, treatment of farm animals, and legalizing marijuana when they go to the voting booths on Nov. 8. For those looking for additional insight into ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports a man was shot to death around 1:40 a.m on Saturday at 58 Westville St.

Anybody with information can contact homicide detectives at 617-343-4470 or the anonymous tip line by ... Read more.

As boats float by and local residents fish for stripers it may not be obvious what’s happening on the Neponset River. Yet officials’ warnings are unequivocal: A drought is here and it is a serious problem.

Boston ... Read more.

For the first time ever, registered voters in Boston — and across the state — will have the opportunity to cast their ballots ahead of the Nov. 8 elections during an early voting period.

Boston City Hall will open ... Read more.

Long-time tenants of mismanaged properties on Waldeck Street in Dorchester and Orlando Street in Mattapan are calling for responsible ownership after a negligent landlord filed for bankruptcy in July.

After Uwa ... Read more.

The Dorchester Day parade comes at the beginning of the summer. The Caribbean Carnival Parade (CCP) comes at the end of the summer. Both the season-starter and the season-closer are largely Dot-produced celebrations, ... Read more.

Olga Gomes, 43, a Cape Verdean immigrant who lived in Dorchester after her arrival in the US and now resides in Roxbury, is the new owner of Lambert’s Fitness Center for Women on Morrissey Boulevard.

After ... Read more.

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