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The Comfort Kitchen Restaurant in Uphams Corner, which opened last January, has been named a semifinalist for Best New Restaurant in 2023 in the prestigious 2024 James Beard Restaurant and Chef Awards. Overall, the ... Read more.

Despite facing major financial challenges, Steward Health Care is not currently planning to shutter any of its Massachusetts hospitals, a company executive said last Friday in response to elected officials sounding the ... Read more.

Tavon Rhodes and Alicia Browder of the Neighborhood House Charter School (NHCS) in Dorchester have spent this basketball season putting up big numbers on the scoreboard. 

Rhodes, a small forward on the boys’ team, ... Read more.

A trio of MBTA bus routes in Boston will continue to operate without charging fares for another two years thanks to an investment of more than $8 million from the city, Mayor Michelle Wu announced Tuesday.

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Arrests of young people dropped by two-thirds in Massachusetts over roughly the past decade, but people of color made up an increasing share of those arrests in the same span, according to new research.

In an ... Read more.

A Suffolk Superior Court jury has concluded that two Stoughton real-estate brokers took advantage of an uneducated contractor with mortgage problems to force him out of his home on Greenbrier Street in Dorchester and turn ... Read more.

Boston College High School will be one of 17 schools that will compete on the 15th season of the Emmy-award winning “High School Quiz Show,” which will be aired starting this month on GBH.

The BC High boys will ... Read more.

Gov. Healey has appointed Dálida Rocha to serve on the state’s Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE). Rocha, a Cape Verdean immigrant, mother of three, and UMass Boston graduate, grew up in Dorchester and ... Read more.

The neighborhood’s Lunar (Tét) New Year celebrations kicked off last Sat., Jan. 27, at the Fields Corner branch of the Boston Public Library with a family celebration hosted by the BPL and the Boston Little Saigon ... Read more.

Mason Bultje, Sportsmen’s Tennis and Enrichment Center (STEC) Annual Fund manager, has been appointed to the USTA New England Board of Directors. Bultje grew up in Minnesota, where he started playing tennis at three years ... Read more.

Last Thursday at First Baptist Church on Ashmont Street in Dorchester, the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO) began its campaign for “housing justice” with call and response, testimonies, and a scorecard for ... Read more.

With winter temperatures now in full chill-mode, Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) is urging residents to apply for funds from the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) to help cover ... Read more.

Having reached the final chapters of my life, I think back on all I have absorbed within the context of my professional career as lawyer, judge, and, in retirement, as an arbitrator, mediator, and occasional columnist. ... Read more.

The “Renovation Husbands” – David and Stephen St. Russell – got off to an auspicious start in their journey to win “Battle on the Mountain” last week. The couple, who live in Dorchester, are one of three who are competing ... Read more.

A Dorchester driving instructor was formally charged on Wednesday - and immediately agreed to plead guilty - to bribery to obtain driver's licenses for three of his students even though they hadn't taken the required ... Read more.

MBTA General Manager Phillip Eng visited Savin Hill’s Cristo Rey School last Thursday for an open house focused on upcoming track work on the Red Line that he says will eventually eliminate the 53 existing “slow zones” ... Read more.

A new proposal from Gov. Healey to offer low-income fares throughout the MBTA system has the enthusiastic support of the agency’s general manager, Phillip Eng. The MBTA estimates the cost of the program would be between $ ... Read more.

Bloomberg Philanthropies has awarded the Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers a $38 million grant, the largest gift in Boston Public School history. The funding reportedly will allow the school to increase its ... Read more.

About 30 people attended meeting held at UMass Boston

Members of the state-run Morrissey Boulevard Commission discussed climate resiliency options for the boulevard’s re-design during its second ... Read more.

The NOBULL performance training company based in the Southline building on Morrissey Boulevard has merged with two companies founded by former New England Patriot quarterback Tom Brady.

NOBULL will combine with ... Read more.

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