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Months after an unexpected shutdown, the Dorchester Youth Collaborative, which works to foster youth development and deter neighborhood violence, is back with a different name but the same goals.

The organization ... Read more.

Last week, Falcon, Inc. released a report evaluating solitary confinement and restrictive housing within the Massachusetts Department of Corrections (DOC). The report was shocking, but unsurprising. This evaluation of our ... Read more.

City government continues to grind out mainly sound decisions this summer, despite the fact that there’s a hotly contested election afoot to pick the next four-year mayor. Some candidates seem to believe that means that ... Read more.

Nine candidates for city council have launched bids to represent District 4, an area that primarily includes parts of Dorchester and Mattapan, including Codman Square, Franklin Field, Four Corners, Fields Corner and ... Read more.

Greater Boston’s Haitian community this morning awoke to shocking news that Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse, 53, was assassinated overnight after armed men assaulted his private residence near Port-au-Prince. His wife was ... Read more.

The sun is out and so are open-air vendors. Across Dorchester and Mattapan, five farmer’s markets are preparing to offer diverse arrays and weekly opportunities to purchase fresh produce, breads, meats, and other ... Read more.

Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation (CSNDC) will subsidize its National Green Infrastructure Training and Certification Program to account for up to ten participants, the organization announced this week ... Read more.

A development team filed new plans with the city last month that detail its latest proposal for a mixed-use building at 554-562 Columbia Rd. in Uphams Corner.

A new six-story building would be sited behind the ... Read more.

The Boston College Irish Dance group (BCID) was able to present its annual spring performance in the university’s Robsham Theater Arts Center just before the 2020 Covid lock down, but was not as fortunate this year due to ... Read more.

With almost two months until the Sept. 14 preliminary, political newcomer Ruthzee Louijeune has one of the largest war chests among the City Council at-large hopefuls.

Her fundraising has outpaced that of two ... Read more.

The Boys and Girls Club of Dorchester launched its annual summer youth employment program during an onboarding event at the clubhouse last Thursday.

“Having the teens here again, having people on site, is really ... Read more.

St. Christopher parish, home to Catholics on Columbia Point and environs since the mid-1950s, was officially merged into St. Teresa of Calcutta parish on the first of July, according to an announcement by Cardinal Sean O’ ... Read more.

Chicago’s Saul Bellow once wrote, “City politics are comic opera.” But in Boston at this time, they’re more like the pages of a comic book as the slugfests outnumber the arias.

Last week’s City Council meeting ... Read more.

A School Committee lawyer argued Tuesday that leaving out the "Westie whites" exchange from text messages handed over to the Globe and a woman who turned out to be a secret member of the parents group suing over exam- ... Read more.

Erin Murphy, one of more than a dozen candidates seeking four at-large slots on the City Council, has picked up the endorsement of District 3 Councillor Frank Baker.

Murphy, a longtime Boston Public Schools teacher ... Read more.

Firefighters at 115 Adams Street fire

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 115 Adams St. around 11 a.m. for ... Read more.

Acting Mayor Kim Janey, who is running for a full four-year term, sought to highlight 100 days in the executive suite. The move drew flack from one of her five rivals, District 4 Councillor Andrea Campbell, who said the ... Read more.

Boston’s 4th of July festivities will return this year, with plans that will include fireworks, historical reenactments, a parade and more. Acting Mayor Kim Janey will kick off a parade on Sunday, July 4 from the steps ... Read more.

A proposal to hand new budgetary powers to the Boston City Council cleared a key hurdle Friday after Attorney General Maura Healey’s office gave its OK to the measure.

Healey’s office found their proposal does not ... Read more.

The Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that a man convicted of fatally shooting Nicholas Fomby-Davis, 14, on Bowdoin Street - as ... Read more.

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