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Teri Trotman of Dorchester has worked intermittently at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC) since 1994. As a member of the UNITE HERE Local 26 food service workers union, Trotman is a veteran of the ... Read more.

A ride-around survey shows about half doing so locally

A clear picture is emerging on what it will take to allow our state and country to emerge from the shutdown of our economy and the self- ... Read more.

A long line of vehicles decorated with flags, balloons, and handmade signs streamed slowly past the Carney Hospital on Thursday, drivers sounding their horns to salute doctors, nurses, and healthcare staff who have been ... Read more.

Codman Square Health Center on Washington Street in Dorchester will expand its testing capacity starting this weekend thanks to funding and logistical support from the city of Boston.

Sandra Cotterell, the CEO of ... Read more.

UMass Boston alumnus Jack Carvalho, who grew up in Cambridge and Somerville and is a managing director at Morgan Stanley, has made the largest gift ever for emergency student aid at the UMass Boston campus.

A 1992 ... Read more.

State Officials Response to COVID-19

Editor's Note: Members of the State House delegation that represents Dorchester and Mattapan co-authored the following column that was published as content ... Read more.

Another 5.2 million Americans and 103,000 Massachusetts residents filed initial claims for unemployment benefits last week, the fourth straight week of surging demand amid the coronavirus pandemic. Both the national and ... Read more.

Her regular visits to the Massachusetts State House have been replaced in recent weeks by texts, phone calls, and Zoom meetings with political and healthcare leaders, but Dorchester’s Kate Audette is still advocating for ... Read more.

A 17 year-old teenage girl was shot and killed on Topliff Street near Speedwell Street in Dorchester on Wednesday afternoon (April 15) in a brazen, broad daylight attack. The victim— who has since been named as Alissa ... Read more.

On the seventh anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh urged city residents on Wednesday to "stand together by standing apart," describing Boston as being at just the start of the surge in ... Read more.

As I reflect on my nearly eight years as president of the Animal Rescue League of Boston (ARL), I keep coming back to something that is vital for any nonprofit organization – the power of volunteering.

This is ... Read more.

Dorchester’s Elizabeth Rouse has been painting storefront windows at businesses in and around Boston for more than a decade. It’s a hobby that began one year when a family friend commissioned her to post St. Patrick’s Day ... Read more.

The coronavirus outbreak has disrupted what is normally the busiest season of the year for realtors everywhere. In Dorchester as elsewhere, agents and brokers are adjusting by using online platforms that allow them to ... Read more.

City Councillors Ricardo Arroyo and Andrea Campbell offered a hearing order during Wednesday’s city council zoom meeting to discuss health inequities and how ventilators and ICU beds would be assigned in the event of a ... Read more.

Today the Martin Richard Foundation and Salem-based nonprofit Sailing Heals announced the launch of Sailing Heals Meals, a new initiative aimed at feeding frontline medical workers on the North Shore while giving local ... Read more.

In the spirit of honoring “One Boston Day,” an event held annually on April 15 to commemorate those who were lost in the 2013 Boston Marathon, Mayor Martin Walsh said that this year the city will participate while also ... Read more.

In an effort to show support for frontline healthcare workers at the Carney Hospital, District 3 Boston City Councillor Frank Baker announced on Monday that he’ll host a "drive by parade" at 1 p.m. on Thursday. ... Read more.

Steve Allen, Jr., a staple at community events as a news photographer in Dorchester since the 1970s, died this week from an illness caused by the coronavirus.

Allen, 63, contracted the COVID-19 disease while he ... Read more.

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