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Are you still trying to decide who to vote for in the Sept. 14 preliminary election for Mayor of Boston? You're not alone!

One poll conducted recently and released by ... Read more.

Two murdered in separate incidents on Saturday

The victim in a fatal stabbing on Saturday morning near Franklin Park has been identified as a 17-year-old boy. Boston Police have issued an arrest ... Read more.

Firefighters at three-alarm fire on Floyd St.

Boston firefighters responded to a two-family house at ... Read more.

A neighbor cut down his oak tree the other day. This probably happens every day in Dorchester and across the neighborhoods of Boston. It was just another tree. So what’s the big deal, right? 

Back in the summer of ... Read more.

Screenshot from Better Boston super PAC

A super PAC supporting Andrea Campbell’s mayoral campaign believes 68 percent of likely voters remain “up for grabs” ahead of the Sept. 14 preliminary, according to an internal memo written by a 2013 candidate for mayor ... Read more.

The Boston police patrolmen’s union last week declined to back a candidate for mayor while opting to back five candidates in the race for the at-large slots on the City Council.

“None of the candidates for mayor ... Read more.

The 50-year-old Norton & Stonehurst Community Garden in Bowdoin-Geneva has received a new lease on life. The space was recently renovated through the efforts of members of the Bowdoin Street Health Center, including ... Read more.

Editor’s Note: The Reporter has invited each of the five major candidates for Mayor of Boston to submit an opinion column to be published in the month of August.

As a former Boston Public Schools (BPS) teacher, ... Read more.

As the first woman and first Black mayor of Boston, I bring to City Hall, and to this race, a life experience like none of my predecessors. One such experience is having known housing insecurity firsthand.

After ... Read more.

It seems that many Bostonians have lackluster interest or are oblivious to the Sept. 14 preliminary election for mayor of Boston, which is just a few weeks away. This sense is consistent with numbers from the two most ... Read more.

Charles Yancey, who served on the City Council for 32 years, lost his District 4 seat in 2015 to a young attorney named Andrea Campbell. Yancey is now stepping back into the political ring as Campbell runs for mayor. ... Read more.

Jimmy Hayes is dead at age 31. I just typed those dreadful words with my own fingers and I still cannot believe it. Don’t want to, either.

It’s hard to properly describe the sense of loss that looms over the ... Read more.

Acting Mayor Kim Janey has named George Huynh to serve as her liaison to Dorchester in the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services (ONS).

A Dorchester native who formerly served in the Walsh administration with a ... Read more.

In January 1879, John Conness, a United States senator from California during the Civil War who had retired to the life of a gentleman farmer in, of all places, Mattapan, Massachusetts, agreed to appear before a City Hall ... Read more.

Two city councillors at-large running for City Hall’s top job and giving up their council seats have spurred more than a dozen people to throw their hats into the ring to replace them in this year’s election. The ... Read more.

Boston Turnout Project TV ad for Michelle Wu

A super PAC supporting Michelle Wu sprang to life this week, with a television ad that mentions her work for the late Mayor Thomas Menino and Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s endorsement of her mayoral campaign.

The ad ... Read more.

Jimmy Hayes, a homegrown hockey star who won a national championship with Boston College before playing seven seasons as a professional— including ... Read more.

Kim Janey's first TV ad

Acting Mayor Kim Janey’s first television ad hits the airwaves Tuesday, a 30-second spot that the campaign plans to air through Sept. 14, the day of the preliminary election. The campaign is spending $164,000 on airtime ... Read more.

City Councillor Annissa Essaibi George this week accused Acting Mayor Kim Janey of “weaponizing” the position as the Sept. 14 preliminary election for the top job in City Hall gets closer.

Essaibi George lit into ... Read more.

NWS Henri

It's been 30 years since a hurricane made landfall in New England and Gov. Charlie Baker urged residents Friday to begin preparing for that possibility as Tropical Storm Henri barrels towards Massachusetts.

"The ... Read more.

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