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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.

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.

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