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A recent poll on the Boston mayor’s race offers another snapshot of the six-way contest.

The poll — conducted for a new coalition that includes a construction union, a developer and a real estate investment and ... Read more.

For five Massachusetts adults and another five Bay State adolescents, the COVID-19 vaccine will prove to be an extra lucky shot.

The Baker administration will partner with Treasurer Deborah Goldberg and the ... Read more.

To the Editor:

As a parent at the Lee Academy Pilot School on Dunbar Avenue, I’ve been very happy with my daughters’ educations, but utterly shocked by the condition of Boston Public School ... Read more.

Gintautas Dumcius, who began his career as a journalist at the Dorchester Reporter while a student at UMass Boston, returned to his roots this week: He is now the managing editor of the newspaper and its website.

A ... Read more.

The developer behind a proposal to overhaul 1.3 acres and add three new buildings behind Dorchester’s South Bay shopping area has pulled back on building heights and housing density.

The project’s total number of ... Read more.

Inspired by NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts, “Tiny DAP Concerts,” an intimate, virtual showcase, will highlight Greater Boston artists who are rising in the ranks in New England Hip Hop as it makes its debut this week through ... Read more.

Dorchester Art Project will host a “Healing Through the Arts” event at Ripley Playground in Four Corners this Saturday, June 19, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The event will include a live mural project celebrating the life of ... Read more.

“The car is no longer king in Boston,” the late Mayor Thomas Menino said a decade ago. Given the pre-pandemic studies showing that the region’s clogged roadways are among the worst in the country, the car seems to have ... Read more.

A two-alarm fire at a two-family home at 61 Shepton St., left, on Monday night caused an estimated $275,000 in damage, according to the Boston Fire Department. Firefighters responded to the scene just after 11:15 p.m. ... Read more.

Boston Police released preliminary statistics this week that suggest a significant decline— 19 percent— in so-called ‘Part One’ crime in the city of Boston this year compared to the same time frame in 2020. The drop in ... Read more.

Last week’s Reporter carried good news about a long-awaited project to patch a 0.7-mile missing link in the Neponset Greenway, between Tenean ... Read more.

In Dorchester, Wu pitches housing plans

With Boston set to take in $500 million in federal funding from the American Rescue Plan, mayoral candidate Wu is pushing for $200 million to go toward ... Read more.

Outside political groups are teeing up for the Boston mayoral race as the Sept. 14 preliminary approaches, with some bold-faced names, including Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, pouring money into one of the groups.

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Four mayoral candidates joined the Boston Pride Mayoral Forum on Monday, highlighting LGBTQ policy priorities ahead of the Sept. 14 preliminary.

The candidates who participated in the panel included John Barros, ... Read more.

Joel Richards scored a plum endorsement today in the contest to succeed Andrea Campbell as the city councillor in District 4. The Boston Teachers Union. The Boston Teachers Union — which counts more than 10,000 men and ... Read more.

A five-year study by the Boston Foundation makes the case that housing instability threatens the health of low-income Boston area residents.

The Boston Foundation’s Health Starts at Home initiative began in 2016, ... Read more.

When used with intention and meditation, psychedelic plants have proven healing properties. A Johns Hopkins study from last year found them four times more effective at treating depression than pharmaceutical medication. ... Read more.

State Rep. Liz Miranda, who represents parts of Dorchester and Roxbury in the Legislature’s Fifth Suffolk district, gave the commencement address at her alma mater, Wellesley College, last Friday. Among the graduates from ... Read more.

The Irish know something about colonialism. Long before there was a British Empire on which “the sun never set,” Ireland was the testing ground for English conquest and confiscating land from the natives. It is ... Read more.

Amid the suddenly open Boston mayoral race and the precipitous decline in Covid-19 cases, a long-awaited decision on Beacon Hill about whether Boston residents will have a seat at the table on major public transportation ... Read more.

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