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The Animal Rescue League of Boston has partnered with Codman Academy Charter Public School to launch the “Healthy Animals – Healthy Communities” initiative, a two-year effort focused on the Codman Square community. ... Read more.

Federal officials last Wednesday charged Arif Ali Shah, 66, who owns Nadia’s at 563 Washington St., with selling fake goods there for 10 years. Federal prosecutors say Shah sold counterfeit Samsung phones and used ... Read more.

MBTA weekend commuter rail service and transit services for individuals with disabilities are on the Baker administration’s “menu” of potential service cuts to help close a $42 million gap in the transit agency’s $2 ... Read more.

Communities of color are objecting to Santander Bank’s use of a Washington D.C.-based community development group to help negotiate a new community benefits agreement for Boston, after the bank failed to meet certain ... Read more.

Modern Irish cinema will tackle weighty social conundrums while also prompting a few more belly laughs than usual at this month’s Irish Film Festival in Somerville, the annual movie-lovers’ celebration of a changing ... Read more.

The Mayor of Dorchester contest has fielded its first two contestants— with room for more to join the friendly fray in the coming weeks. Dorchester native David Anderson and Lower Mills business owner Carlos Vargas are ... Read more.

There is no denying that the event is literally part of Boston’s turf – that’s not a point of view, but a simple fact. At the 2017 St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast in South Boston, state Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry will once ... Read more.

The Legislature’s new marijuana committee will begin its work in earnest later this month with an “overview” hearing at the State House before holding similar hearings elsewhere in the state, the committee chairs said. ... Read more.

The Boston Licensing Board on Thursday revoked Pho So 1's food-serving and beer-and-wine licenses after its fifth citation in seven months for staying open well past its licensed closing time of 10 p.m.

The ... Read more.

Some 165 people showed up at the IBEW union hall last Wednesday evening for an open house look at the Boston Planning and Development Agency’s PLAN: Glover’s Corner study. As attendees milled around the hall, they placed ... Read more.

Mayor Martin Walsh’s administration rolled out a sweeping transit report on Tuesday that reviewed ongoing projects and laid out a broad blueprint for transportation investments over the next 15 years.

Dorchester ... Read more.

On a drizzly Tuesday morning, four members of Dorchester’s State House delegation and a couple of transportation officials gathered under an overhang on the Four Corners/Geneva Avenue platform as a hulking commuter-rail ... Read more.

After a spike in commercial break-ins to start 2017, Boston Police have seen a dramatic reduction of burglaries across the C-11 district in recent days in the wake of a number of solid arrests, said Capt. Tim Connolly. ... Read more.

A team of 100 runners affiliated with the Martin Richard Foundation are training hard for next month’s BAA Boston Marathon, set for April 17. The foundation’s team— affectionately known as ... Read more.

Mayor Martin Walsh and at-large City Councillor Ayanna Pressley on Monday outlined a plan for bringing 152 new liquor licenses to Boston - a plan that could mean a significant number of new licenses for Dorchester and ... Read more.

University of Massachusetts Boston is bringing on board former Bowdoin College president Barry Mills to serve as its deputy chancellor and chief operating officer.

Mills will oversee the academic and research ... Read more.

The organizers of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade have voted to reject a LGBTQ veterans group from marching in this year’s parade, prompting swift condemnations from elected officials. Mayor Martin Walsh says he will not ... Read more.

The Boston city council is choosing to further study a “just cause” eviction ordinance proposed by Mayor Martin Walsh in order to incorporate feedback from an extended meeting and community input.

The “Jim Brooks ... Read more.

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