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Boston Public School students will be required to wear masks when classes resume in September, Acting Mayor Kim Janey said last week, noting that children are already wearing masks for summer school and other city ... Read more.

In early June, the community grocer Daily Table embarked on a summer partnership with the Shah Family Foundation to bring free, pre-packaged breakfast and lunch to children across Dorchester, Roxbury, and Cambridge.  ... Read more.

State Rep. Liz Miranda has thrown her support behind Evandro Carvalho— her predecessor in the Legislature—as he campaigns to become the next city councillor in District 4. The two of them Carvalho canvassed Bowdoin-Geneva ... Read more.

Acting Mayor Kim Janey is hoping a free ride will give her a lift to the polls.

Janey on Monday announced a three-month pilot program that eliminates fares on the Route 28 bus that connects the neighborhoods of ... Read more.

President Joe Biden on Monday nominated Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins to serve as the state's top federal prosecutor, a historic move that could reshape the U.S. Attorney's office and kick off a flurry ... Read more.

Two prominent progressive organizations are standing with Joel Richards in the contest for District 4 city councillor. The Greater Boston Labor Council threw its support to Richards this weekend along with Sunrise Boston ... Read more.

UMass officials are issuing a request for proposals for the redevelopment of the Calf Pasture Pumping Station and another parcel, currently used for parking at the Boston campus, in Dorchester’s Columbia Point.

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City Councillor At-Large Annissa Essaibi George will appear in the No. 1 slot on the Sept. 14 mayoral preliminary ballot.

City elections officials on Friday pulled candidate names out of a gold tumbler to determine ... Read more.

Members of Dorchester’s Ward 15 Democratic Committee earlier this month threw their support behind Ruthzee Louijeune, a former aide to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and David Halbert, a former aide in Gov. Deval Patrick’s ... Read more.

The “Bostonians for Real Progress” super PAC, the newest outside group to enter the Boston mayor’s race, says it’s backing City Councillor At-Large Annissa Essaibi George for the top job.

“We believe Anissa is the ... Read more.

Acting Mayor Kim Janey on Thursday tapped the executive director of the Massachusetts chapter of Latinos for Education and the head of a parent mentoring program to fill two vacant seats on the Boston School Committee. ... Read more.

The year 2020 was meant to be a banner 12 months for Dorchester Brewing Company. The Massachusetts Avenue brewery, which also goes by DBCo, rang in the new year with a new roof deck and garden, dubbed the “Hopservatory,” ... Read more.

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley said last week that the US should take steps to prevent further destabilization of Haiti after the country’s president Jovenel Moïse was assassinated on July 7.

“There are many urgent ... Read more.

UPDATE: The super PAC tells the Reporter it's backing Annissa Essaibi George. Original ... Read more.

July 1991. Here in Dorchester, we were midstream through a summer punctuated by a still-smoldering wave of violence that had peaked the year before with a body count of 156 souls, still an all-time-high for Boston.

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City elections officials plan to determine the order of candidates on the Sept. 14 preliminary ballot on Friday.

The lottery will take place at noon inside City Hall’s Iannella Chambers. The elections department ... Read more.

A study of Kosciuszko Circle and Morrissey Boulevard took another step forward last week when Boston planning officials signed off on funds for the effort. The study comes amid a development boom in the area, from the ... Read more.

A proposal to develop 403 residential units off Dorchester’s Boston Street received approval last Thursday from the city’s planning agency.

The board of the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) approved ... Read more.

The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on whether to reinstate the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Oct. 13.

A federal appeals court threw out Tsarnaev’s death sentence last year ... Read more.

Joshua Baez, the onetime standout baseball player at two Boston high schools, Cristo Rey in Dorchester and the Snowden International School in the Back Bay, moved one big step closer to his goal of playing in the major ... Read more.

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