An ambitious proposal to extend the Orange Line subway underground from Ruggles Station to Mattapan Square via Warren Street and Blue Hill Avenue got a private airing with Interim MassDOT Secretary Phil Eng Tuesday in the Back Bay’s State Transportation Building on Tuesday.
The Caribbean American Carnival Association of Boston (CACAB) has announced that state Sen. Nick Collins and state Rep. Brandy Fluker-Reid will serve as Grand Marshal and Grand Matron of the 53rd annual Boston Caribbean Carnival, starting with the J’ouvert Parade, on Sat., Aug. 29.
Boston City Councillors are poised to approve to a $4.9 billion FY27 operating budget with most of their amendments left unchanged by Mayor Michelle Wu.
Adjie Hurley was a retired senior registrar for the City of Boston Election Department. She was a former crossing guard for the City of Boston, at St. Mark Grammar School
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled on Tuesday that the initiative petition seeking to impose statewide rent control “impermissibly” relates to religion and religious institutions.
The trend in parts of Dorchester toward investor-owned homes and short-term rentals is bad for the neighborhood, writes Cara Gillis.
A Boston judge today ruled that a Hyde Park man arrested for killing a 32-year-old Dorchester woman on Saturday in Mattapan Square should be held without bail while he undergoes a mental health evaluation for the next two weeks.
Residents from Dorchester and beyond gathered in Town Field on a gorgeous Friday (June 19) to celebrate the sixth annual Juneteenth federal holiday.
Boston Police are investigating a shooting on Quincy Street that left an adult man in critical condition late Sunday night.
The Boston Police Department reports a man who somehow crashed his car on Blue Hill Avenue at Woodhaven Street in Mattapan around 2 p.m. on Saturday, got out, carjacked another car, then started a blocks-long chain of destruction that left a woman who was walking across Blue Hill Avenue dead.
A bronze statue honoring the late Boston businessman and philanthropist Jack Connors was unveiled on June 9 outside 200 Clarendon Street, placing a permanent tribute to one of the city’s most influential civic figures at the base of the tower
Father Greg Boyle (left), the founder of Homeboy Industries, with “Homies” Benjamin Valenzuela (center) and Hector Rodriguez (right) at Cristo Rey High School. Cassidy McNeeley photo
Board members from the reinvigorated Mattapan Square Main Streets were on hand to welcome everyone to Hunt-Almont Park, including President Yionel Torres, Brandon Moore, Allyson Allen, Sheree Holmes, and Marc Carroll.
Dianne Wilkerson, a former state senator, points to an envisioned Orange Line extension going from Ruggles to Mattapan Square they would like to see instead of the proposed center-running bus lane along Blue Hill Avenue.
Seth Daniel photo