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A Jamaica Plain non-profit is pushing for approval of a new 4-story residential building on property it has owned since 2019 on Cheney Street in Grove Hall, three blocks north of the Franklin Park Zoo.

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The assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, who was murdered in his home by mercenaries in an early- ... Read more.

 A self-proclaimed “Dorchester girl,” Judith “Judy” Kirwan Kelley, recounts her memories of growing up Irish Catholic in Dorchester during the 1960s in a memoir she published this summer.  The stories in her book, ... Read more.

Leigh Montville was a 25-year-old second-year man on the sports staff of the Boston Evening Globe in 1969 when his editor, Ernie Roberts, assigned him to help with the coverage of the city’s indomitable professional ... Read more.

If you drive down Harvard Street toward Blue Hill Avenue, do yourself a favor and pump the brakes at the corner of Norwell Street, first for the sake of safety because people drive too fast there, but also to take a look ... Read more.

Joshua Baez, a standout baseball player with roots in the Dominican Republic and Dorchester, was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the second round of the Major League Baseball draft on Monday afternoon. Baez, who ... Read more.

Carla Duran Capellan’s afternoon stroll often takes her from her cramped Mt. Vernon Ave. dorm at UMass Boston through the sprawling harborside grounds of the JFK Library and down to Boston’s seaport at City Point in South ... Read more.

Carla Duran Capellan’s afternoon stroll often takes her from her cramped Mt. Vernon Ave. dorm at UMass Boston through the sprawling harborside grounds of the JFK Library and down to Boston’s seaport at City Point in South ... Read more.

Change is coming to Ayanna Pressley’s majority-minority Congressional district, less than three years after she beat out Michael Capuano for the seat to become the first Black woman sent to Capitol Hill by Massachusetts ... Read more.

The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved construction of a modern three decker at 34 Dorset St., but with the condition BPDA designers work with the developer to ... Read more.

South End state Rep. Jon Santiago ended his run for mayor on Tuesday, leaving five major candidates to compete for the top job inside Boston City Hall.

Santiago, who first launched his campaign in February, ... Read more.

A federal judge in Boston ruled Monday that Pepo Herd El, arrested last November after he got off a bus at Ruggles while allegedly wearing body armor and packing a loaded gun, three full magazines and a knife, is unlikely ... Read more.

The city’s Environment Department will hold its second virtual open house on heat resilience on Wednesday as it continues its ... Read more.

Acting Mayor Kim Janey on Saturday rallied supporters at her new Jamaica Plain campaign office in her bid to win a full four-year term as the city’s chief executive.

In a squat one-story building on Centre Street, ... Read more.

John Barros, a mayoral candidate and former top City Hall official, has garnered support from Dan Magoon, a Dorchester veteran who heads up a nonprofit focused on Gold Star families.

Barros, who served as former ... Read more.

John Barros, a mayoral candidate and former top City Hall official, has garnered support from Dan Magoon, a Dorchester veteran who heads up a nonprofit focused on Gold Star families.

Barros, who served as former ... Read more.

Firefighters at Bowdoin Street fire.

The Boston Fire Department reports a former pizza place at 205 Bowdoin St. in Dorchester caught ... Read more.

After the lapse of no-excuse voting by mail in Massachusetts, a Boston city councilor hopes that his petition will ramp up the pressure on Beacon Hill to ensure city voters regain that option before they head to the polls ... Read more.

Governor Baker is backing an effort to get the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have a badly polluted section of the Neponset River between Hyde Park and Dorchester added to the federal agency’s National ... Read more.

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