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Reverend Willie Bodrick II was installed as Senior Pastor at Roxbury’s Twelfth Baptist Church last Sunday, making him the second-youngest pastor in the church’s 181-year history, and its youngest in the last 145 years. He ... Read more.

Starting next Friday (Oct. 8), Dorchester Brewing Company (DBCo) brews will be on display at the downtown W Hotel, which plans to open an indoor, street-level beer garden with DBCo beers on tap, specialty beer-infused ... Read more.

A recount of the District 7 preliminary results on Sat., Sept. 26, found that perennial candidate Roy Owens had marginally increased his lead for second place over Angelina “Angie” Camacho. Owens will face Tania Anderson ... Read more.

Voters who live in the District 3 City Council seat that covers much of eastern Dorchester will be asked to choose between incumbent Councillor Frank Baker and challenger Stephen McBride in the Nov. 2 general election. ... Read more.

At a recent Boston Raiders Pop Warner football practice at the program’s temporary Hyde Park home, scores of kids from Dorchester and Mattapan could be seen across the field wearing shoulder pads and throwing around the ... Read more.

Cleon Byron has lived nearly all of his life on the 1000 block of Blue Hill Avenue, where a cousin operates a restaurant and his family has owned a storefront for nearly 30 years, the latter a site that he painstakingly ... Read more.

A Tuesday morning derailment on the Red Line, the latest in a string of incidents on the MBTA, highlights the "urgent need" for Beacon Hill to steer more resources to the transit agency and for Gov. Charlie Baker to pull ... Read more.

Rendering of Wales Street proposal

The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday unanimously approved a non-profit group's plan to replace a crumbling 10-unit apartment building at 37 Wales St. with a new four-story building with 20 apartments for families coming ... Read more.

The second car of a slow-moving, six-car Red Line train derailed on Tuesday morning. A T spokesman said the car on the southbound train derailed at Broadway Station at about 9:45 a.m. "and made contact with the edge of ... Read more.

Mayoral finalist Annissa Essaibi George this week plans campaign stops in Dorchester, Roxbury, Mattapan and other Boston neighborhoods as part of a “listen and learn” tour.

The conversations at the campaign stops ... Read more.

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, a Boston Democrat and a former city councillor at-large, on Monday announced her picks for the City Council’s four at-large slots.

Pressley endorsed Julia Mejia, an incumbent, as well ... Read more.

Hamilton Street rendering

VietAID has filed plans with the BPDA for a four-story, 36-unit apartment building at 25-33 Hamilton St. that would be aimed at people over 62 making no more than 60% of ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports a woman and a man were shot at 240 Westview St. in the Franklin Field development around 9 p.m. on Saturday

Both were taken to local hospitals. The woman died, the man is in ... Read more.

With 38 days left until the November mayoral election, Acting Mayor Kim Janey said she’s backing Michelle Wu over Annissa Essaibi George in the battle for the top job in City Hall.

Janey, who finished fourth in the ... Read more.

Rally for Haitian immigrants

Roughly one hundred people rallied on Friday to protest the Biden administration’s treatment of Haitian migrants.

Elected officials at the city and state level, as well as some contenders for City Council, formed a ... Read more.

The transition of mayoral power is set for Tuesday, Nov. 16, a date which Acting Mayor Kim Janey and the two mayoral candidates agreed upon after a meeting on Beacon Hill Thursday.

City Councillors At-Large Annissa ... Read more.

The MBTA is focusing on improving bus service, increasing efficiency through dedicated bus lanes, and rebuilding its facilities so they can accommodate electric vehicles, the public transit agency’s general manager said ... Read more.

Republicans on Thursday postponed for a week a Senate Judiciary Committee vote on the nomination of Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins to become the next U.S. attorney for Massachusetts.

President ... Read more.

Leaders in Boston’s Black and Latinx communities plan to gather at Morning Star Baptist Church in Mattapan after the Sept. 14 mayoral preliminary ended without any Black candidates making it to the general election set ... Read more.

The resignation of US special envoy to Haiti, Ambassador Daniel Foote, is “damning” and “more evidence” that Biden administration officials must change course in their treatment of the neighboring country and its people, ... Read more.

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