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The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved a developer's plans to rehab the former St. Matthew convent at 43-45 Stanton St. in Dorchester and add a four-story ... Read more.

The Boston Licensing Board voted Thursday to suspend the license of the Dublin Pub, 7 Stoughton St. in Dorchester, for one day over the way a patron was sliced with ... Read more.

Judge’s ruling expected by end of March

Justice Sarah Ellis put a short hold on the White Stadium pro soccer and public school renovation plans on Wednesday during an preliminary hearing in the ... Read more.

More BCYF pools expected to re-open by summer

The long-awaited and delayed $12.7 million renovation of the Mattahunt Community Center is about to come to an end, according to city officials, who ... Read more.

The city of Boston has released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a key piece of land on Cummins Highway in Mattapan, just as the corridor is set for a $32 million infrastructure transformation, the first of its kind ... Read more.

What’s not to like about Dorchester’s signature housing, the three-decker?

On your floor, you get two porches, a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, a bathroom, two or three bedrooms, and a back yard. Many came ... Read more.

Brayden Gero has had a pretty-exciting last few years. He met President Barack Obama at the White House in 2014, rode a Duck Boat with Tom Brady in the 2015 Super Bowl Parade, and was honored by the Boston Police ... Read more.

The Mayor’s Office of Women’s Advancement has awarded a $50,000 grant to Roxbury’s Neighborhood Birth Center (NBC) to support the advancement of Boston’s first community birth center, the city announced last month.

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More than 115 members of the Massachusetts clergy signed onto an open letter to House and Senate leadership on Sunday, saying that “it is clear that the issue of housing has all but consumed the hearts and minds of our ... Read more.

In Boston, the path to new development often leads through negotiation, with a place at the table for different sides with different agendas. If community members end up believing that the outcome had been pre-arranged, ... Read more.

The lone retail space in a new mixed-use building at 1700 Dorchester Ave. across from St. Mark’s Church will soon be home to DOTTEA, the neighborhood’s newest boba tea shop. 

“I’m most excited to bring the new ... Read more.

The Urban Farming Institute (UFI) has purchased the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm on Norfolk Street in Mattapan, a property it has been taking care of since 2014. The group’s president, Patricia Spence, shared the news of the ... Read more.

About 200 people became US citizens during a naturalization ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on Wednesday.

US District Court Judge Myong Joun presided at the event and Yvonne Garcia, ... Read more.

A cup of coffee, a holistic tea, a muffin, and a newspaper, then a dash to catch the train to downtown. That’s the rhythm around the new House of Seven Café set up in a kiosk outside Shawmut Station as owner Tamicka Brown ... Read more.

Top House and Senate Democrats plan to hold a hearing on the role of private equity in the health care system. The topic has exploded on Beacon Hill this year as Steward Health Care’s financial troubles have surfaced ... Read more.

Federal environmental officials gave the public an update on plans to clean up the contaminated Lower Neponset River along a 3.7-mile stretch of the waterway from Mother Brook in Hyde Park to the Walter Baker Dam on the ... Read more.

The Boston Teacher’s Union (BTU) kicked off a new round of contract negotiations on Feb. 29 with a press conference at its Dorchester headquarters, where leaders spelled out four major priorities the union says it will be ... Read more.

To the Editor:

According to the City of Boston’s 43rd Annual Homeless Census conducted in 2023, the number of unhoused adults living in the city has increased by 42 percent. Additionally, much of Boston’s unhoused ... Read more.

The metal door slammed as Jamal ran from the Blackstone School in Boston. I’d not seen him in more than seven years, but I recognized him immediately. My first thought was robbery. My second: Who robs an elementary school ... Read more.

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