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Boston’s topography and its economically beneficial coastline leave the city exposed to severe flooding and extreme heat waves, the city warned last week with the release of its Climate Ready Boston report.

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Boston Mayor Martin Walsh last week proposed an increase in the city’s residential property tax exemption, taking quick advantage of a law signed by the governor at the end of last week to save some city residents close ... Read more.

Education leaders sought common ground on issues of equity and investment at a forum last Saturday.

More than 100 Boston education leaders gathered at TechBoston Academy for an “Issues Assembly” organized by the ... Read more.

Scrapping plans to overhaul railcars that date back to the 1990s, the MBTA agreed on Monday to replace its entire Red Line fleet by 2024 by purchasing an additional 120 to 134 cars at a cost of up to $280 million. ... Read more.

Verizon plans to construct a fence along its Enterprise Street facility’s eastern property line to help dampen work noise that residents of abutting historic properties say has ... Read more.

The City Council on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected a proposal by councilors Frank Baker and Bill Linehan to add a 2% tax on liquor sales to fund addiction treatment programs.

Council President Michelle Wu joined ... Read more.

A man, believed to be in his 20s, was found mortally wounded at 2:55 p.m. on Monday afternoon outside of 49 Bullard St. in Dorchester. The victim, who has not yet been named by Boston Police, was taken to a local hospital ... Read more.

One firefighter suffered a minor injury at a two-alarm Friday-morning fire in a three decker at 7 Rowell St., the Boston Fire Department reports.

Firefighters responded at 7:55 a.m. to find a basement fire ... Read more.

109 Fuller St. fire

The Boston Fire Department reports a fire around 3 p.m. on Thursday at 109 Fuller St., off Washington St., went to two alarms and did an estimated $500,000 in damage.

Five adults and ten children were displaced, ... Read more.

Continuing efforts to shape the city’s first major planning study in 50 years, the Imagine Boston 2030 team ... Read more.

The city’s Inspectional Services Department (ISD) is considering a criminal complaint against the owner of a Milton Avenue three-decker that has been ... Read more.

Everything was on time as the train carrying a few dozen city and state officials, residents of neighborhoods along the line, and daily riders rumbled along on a round trip on the Fairmount Commuter Rail Line last ... Read more.

Thoughts of summer will be in order on Saturday when the Dorchester Running Club’s second annual “Halfway to Dot Day 5k” road race kicks off at 9 a.m. at the Hallet Street entrance to Pope John Paul II Park.

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A teacher and a student from Tech Boston Academy were recognized for their achievements during a ceremony at the Google offices in Cambridge last week. Christian Miranda, a teaching fellow at the school, was presented ... Read more.

The City of Boston’s 2015 plan to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious crashes by 2030 requires more funding and a more focused effort to redesign “hot spots,” or areas where there have been a high number of crashes, ... Read more.

The pursuit of writing in its many aspects is alive and very well at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Dorchester’s Grove Hall neighborhood where the non-profit 826 Boston’s writing and tutoring program has set up shop ... Read more.

When you’re the music director for “A Christmas Celtic Sojourn,” says Seamus Egan, Christmas comes early. “Actually,” he quips, “Christmas tends to last all year.”

Egan is finishing up his first decade overseeing ... Read more.

Members of the Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association planning committee like the design but worry about the density of a 21-unit building proposal that would replace the Scally & Trayers Funeral Home on Pleasant ... Read more.

The long awaited opening of UMass Boston’s University Hall Theatre took place Thursday, as Bat Boy: The Musical began a seven-performance run. The cult-classic, rock and roll fueled horror-inspired comic journey is ripped ... Read more.

In the fall of 2001, BC High introduced the McElroy Scholars Program in an effort to provide at-risk students with models of success and the extra tools needed to excel academically, which, it was hoped, would in turn ... Read more.

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