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Heather Jacobs is the new the head women’s basketball coach at UMass Boston. She replaces Kristina Baugh who left UMass Boston last June to take the head coaching position at Barry University.

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Boston’s six major mayoral candidates took up discussions about exam school admissions, the place, if any, of police in school settings, and the governance of the School Committee during a virtual forum on education held ... Read more.

District 4 City Councillor and candidate for mayor Andrea Campbell joined chef Tiffani Faison at Sweet Cheeks Q restaurant in Fenway last Wednesday (May 26) to lay out her restaurant recovery plan and the state of the ... Read more.

Mayor Kim Janey said Tuesday that her office is reviewing video submitted by Boston Police Commissioner Dennis White’s family claiming he was the victim, not the aggressor, of domestic violence in his former marriage, but ... Read more.

Last March, Quennette “Queenie” Santos’s mother, Izora Kindell, succumbed to renal failure after a tough battle against kidney and lung cancer. She was 92.

Much like her daughter, who herself had been diagnosed ... Read more.

So, is it actually Dot Day on Sunday without the namesake parade? Our answer: Of course! This weekend, many of us will observe the high holiday in backyard gatherings or by patronizing our favorite Dot eateries.

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The Boston Police Department reports arresting Nickoyan Wallace, on charges he fatally shot Ivanildo Barros ... Read more.

Acting Mayor Kim Janey joined union leaders under the blue awning of the Boston Teachers Union for a diaper donation drive on Wednesday, cooling off with an ice cream bar and thanking community childcare workers for doing ... Read more.

The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) unveiled a mural at the Mattapan Teen Center on May 14 with a crew of ten student-artists flooding Hazelton Street with technicolor.

The mural is part of the BPDA’ ... Read more.

Last week, Mayor Kim Janey announced the Joy Agenda, a city-wide initiative that will feature a number of job opportunities for creatives, including the 2021 Transformative Public Art Program, which is now accepting ... Read more.

The Greater Boston Labor Council on Friday promoted its donation of a new freezer to a Mattapan food pantry. According to the council, Shirley’s Pantry “serves a community with one of the highest rates of food insecurity ... Read more.

The Massachusetts Democratic Party will hold an in-person platform convention this September in Lowell. Massachusetts Democratic Party Chairman Gus Bickford sent an email to state committee members last Thursday outlining ... Read more.

Boston’s mayoral candidates discussed labor issues – including affordable housing, universal childcare, and reviving Boston’s hospitality industry – during a mayoral forum hosted by the Greater Boston Labor Council last ... Read more.

With ridership creeping up to its highest levels since the pandemic began, the MBTA will boost frequency on its subway system and more than two dozen bus routes next month, officials announced on Monday.

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Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine was overwhelmingly successful at preventing serious infection in adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17, the company announced Tuesday, targeting early June to seek authorization for ... Read more.

Wesley Ward didn’t know much about tennis before he first stepped on the courts at Sportsmen’s Tennis and Enrichment Center ten years ago. Fast forward a decade, and the 20-year-old Mattapan native is headed to ... Read more.

The six candidates running for mayor of Boston met for the second time this week in a forum hosted by the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department Wednesday where they honed in on criminal justice, substance abuse disorder, ... Read more.

The metallic rush of steel percussion ­– the instrumentation of Hyde Park’s Branches Steel Orchestra – swelled as hundreds of people descended on Walker Playground on Tuesday evening for the final leg of the March for ... Read more.

The Boston Home on Dorchester Avenue has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Cummings Foundation to support two of its core programs, the B.Fit! day program and the Wheelchair Enhancement Center. The Boston Home, an ... Read more.

It has been a year of uncertainty, but as the days grow longer and warmer, vaccinations continue and the number of Covid-19 cases trend in the right direction, there is a sense of hope on the horizon. As this time of ... Read more.

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