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The number of active cases of the highly-contagious coronavirus in Massachusetts rose by more than 16 percent over the last week, public health officials said Wednesday evening. At 6,744 active cases of COVID-19 confirmed ... Read more.

The House on Thursday morning removed Rep. Daniel Cullinane, the de facto chair of the Committee on Health Care Financing, from the small group negotiating a long-awaited health care compromise with the Senate and the ... Read more.

More people are riding the T now that schools and workplaces are open. And the MBTA expects ridership to keep increasing through the fall. That could mean more crowding and more concerns about transmission of the ... Read more.

A group of Black community leaders and organizations have told lawmakers negotiating over a police reform bill that they prefer the Senate’s approach to limiting qualified immunity, saying the House’s proposed ... Read more.

The names of 136 law enforcement officers appear on a list of potential prosecutorial witnesses with credibility issues assembled by Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins’ office. Rollins released the list — ... Read more.

Presidential election years historically draw more people to the polls than all other statewide contests. In the 2016 election, about 75 percent of eligible voters – or more than 3.3 million people – cast their ballots in ... Read more.

Dorchester artists are well represented in the latest round of Boston Music Awards nominations, which rolled out last week, reflecting the robust music landscape that continues to grow in the neighborhood. 

Cliff ... Read more.

With Gov. Charlie Baker appearing poised to allow the state's eviction moratorium to expire in two weeks, activists are ramping up pressure on the Legislature to pass a bill that would not only ban evictions, but freeze ... Read more.

An art show and auction hosted by The Boston Home last Thursday offered residents the chance to show off painting skills they have honed in recent months through a watercolor class taught on site. The art class is one of ... Read more.

Here’s hoping Mayor Marty Walsh is ready for his close-up.

After rapturous receptions in Venice and Toronto, director Fredrick Wiseman’s towering 272-minute documentary “City Hall” has its U.S. premiere Friday, ... Read more.

For all the devastation it has wrought — thousands of deaths, mass layoffs, financial hardship, setbacks in education and more — the coronavirus pandemic has had at least one positive impact: it has changed the way Boston ... Read more.

Mayor Martin Walsh urged Bostonians to consider voting early ahead of the November 3 presidential election. Early voting in Boston will begin on Sat., Oct. 17 and go through Fri., Oct. 30. All registered voters will be ... Read more.

A new leader has taken up the helm at St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children on Dorchester’s Jones Hill. Alexis Steel, a former chief operating officer at the facility, was elected president by the board of trustees in ... Read more.

Long before the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in the United States, the country was already battling another large-scale public health crisis: the opioid epidemic. Like the COVID-19 pandemic, the opioid epidemic has ... Read more.

Boston’s positive covid-19 test rate has climbed to 3.5 percent this week— an increase from 2.7 percent last week, Mayor Walsh said today, adding that Dorchester’s 02125 and 02121 zip codes are among the worst hit, at 7 ... Read more.

Rendering of proposed Wales Street building.

Heading Home, Inc., has filed plans with the BPDA to build a five-story, 23-unit apartment at 37 Wales St. on Wales Street for families trying to get out of homelessness ... Read more.

A development team last week aired its latest plans for a new, five-story, mixed-use building at 1463-1469 Dorchester Ave., a parcel next to the Fields Corner MBTA station that was the longtime home of the the John ... Read more.

Dorchester Bay City.

That’s the name that the development team from Accordia Partners came up with for the massive redevelopment of the old Bayside Expo site on our waterfront. The project will also one day ... Read more.

George Huynh will join Mayor Walsh’s Office of Neighborhood Services as the liaison for the Fields Corner neighborhood and Vietnamese community. A native of Fields Corner, Huynh is a graduate of Boston Latin School and ... Read more.

Starting this week, you'll either have to pay five cents for a plastic bag or bring your own reusable checkout bags at stores in Boston.

Mayor Walsh last March issued an executive order that temporarily lifted the ... Read more.

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