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The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved plans by the owner of Antonio’s HiFi Pizza and Bosburger in Fields Corner to open a recreational marijuana mart at 43 Freeport ... Read more.

Last month was kind to City Councillor Andrea Campbell’s campaign effort. Her team announced on Monday that she has raised more than $272,000 in January, an infusion fueled in part, no doubt, by Mayor Walsh’s imminent ... Read more.

This is gonna be interesting...

The race to succeed Mayor Marty Walsh has begun in earnest.

The mayor is expected to resign within a matter of days. Walsh's first — and perhaps only— confirmation hearing ... Read more.

The Hip Hop Transformation (THHT), a youth organization co-led by local rap artist Red Shaydez, will partner with the Lower ... Read more.

Saying it's similar to the large Section 8 federal program, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh on Monday launched a new city housing voucher program, predicting it will provide rental assistance to hundreds of low-income city ... Read more.

COVID-19 IN THE NEWS

State tops 500k cases; Baker pushes on sites; Walsh tends to openings

On Monday afternoon, as a winter storm was beginning its assault on New England, ... Read more.

Mayor Martin Walsh swore in Dorchester native Dennis White as the city's 43rd police commissioner during a ceremony at Faneuil Hall on Monday morning.

After being sworn in, White said he is accepting this honor on ... Read more.

The mass vaccination sites open around Massachusetts had a "very good week" last week and Gov. Charlie Baker predicted Monday morning that those efforts are "gonna have a very good week this week too," despite a winter ... Read more.

As Boston looks back on one year since the first COVID-19 case was announced in the city, Mayor Marty Walsh on Monday cited a continued improvement in COVID numbers and the city officially moved forward into Phase 3, Step ... Read more.

Boston Police this weekend released images of a man they want to find in connection to the murder of a 19-year-old Dorchester woman who was shot to death near Four Corners on Jan. 22.

The unidentified male is ... Read more.

A winter storm that could dump more than a foot of snow on the city has prompted Mayor Walsh to declare a snow emergency beginning tomorrow at noon. The order includes a parking ban ... Read more.

Congressman Stephen Lynch tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, his office announced.

Lynch is "asymptomatic and feels fine," his communications director Molly Rose Tarpey said in a statement, and he will self- ... Read more.

Fuller Street fire

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 110 Fuller St. around 1:30 p.m. on ... Read more.

FENWAY PARK, BOSTON, JAN. 29, 2021.....Hot dogs and pricey beer won't be on the menu next week when Fenway Park opens up again.

How about a COVID-19 vaccine and a view of the storied field that has seen some of the ... Read more.

Frustration about the state's rocky COVID-19 vaccine rollout and its impact on older adults continued to escalate Thursday, even as Gov. Charlie Baker promised more appointments would become available and the launch of a ... Read more.

An ordinance put forward by At-large Councillor and mayoral candidate Michelle Wu yesterday would require that city health officials open at least one Covid-19 vaccination site in every zip code in Boston. The proposal ... Read more.

Boston Police Commissioner William Gross will retire on Friday and Mayor Walsh has appointed Dennis White— who is currently Gross' chief of staff to become his replacement.

White, who is African-American and ... Read more.

Boston archeologists have unearthed a trove of historical details about a sinkhole that opened up in early December near a pathway in Ronan Park. At the time, a cursory investigation (involving an iPhone and flashlights ... Read more.

First Parish Dorchester has a new permanent minister. The Reverend Elizabeth Carrier-Ladd, who has served at the parish atop Meetinghouse Hill since last August, is the 24th “settled” minister in the parish’s 391-year ... Read more.

Immigration is very personal to me in the present and in my past. After four years of hateful talk about immigrants by the previous resident of the White House, President Biden is going to work on legislative reform, ... Read more.

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