Man charged with 1999 murder on Columbia Road
January 14, 2026
A Boston Public Schools proposal would move the Boston International Newcomers Academy (BINcA) from Maxwell Street on Codman Hill to the former Grover Cleveland Middle School in Fields Corner, creating a new and expanded multi-lingual learning hub for high school students citywide.
Seth Daniel wonders: Where have all the stray cats gone in our neighborhood?
“We wanted to make sure this wasn’t just about a fancy swearing-in ceremony downtown,” the mayor said.
One of the city’s best artists, according to the judges at the Boston Music Awards, is Dorchester’s own Echezona Onwuama, a 25-year-old from Four Corners who fuses a raw talent for hip-hop wordplay with his Nigerian roots and church choir background to curate sound that is starting to turn heads nationally.
Boston’s schools superintendent, bracing for a continued decline in enrollment in the new year, warned the School Committee last month that the further loss in student numbers will impact the district’s budget as well.
The Boston School Committee met via Zoom on Monday evening (Jan. 5) for its annual organizational meeting where it set a calendar and chose officers for the coming year.
District 4 City Councillor Brian Worrell is the favorite to win the votes needed to be the next president of the Boston City Council, according to sources familiar with the vote.
Ride-along with the Boston Water and Sewer Commission workers who keep a forgotten but critical piece of infrastructure in good working order.
Neighbors led by the former top archivist for the city of Boston are looking to create a “history garden” near Edward Everett Square and the Blake House, Boston’s oldest existing dwelling.
The Supreme Judicial Court last week agreed to review an appeal filed by opponents of the White Stadium renovation plan that was decided in favor of the city of Boston and Boston Unity Sports Partners in Suffolk Superior Court earlier this year.
Trustees at Cedar Grove Cemetery are planning to put up three buildings— each with two units of housing—on a parcel of land it owns near the corner of Granite Avenue and Milton Street.
While the Immigrant Family Services Institute (IFSI) in Mattapan Square is best known for its workforce development classes and immigration case work, the non-profit has also offered over the last five years or so an after-school music program for kids,
State officials confirmed today that a controversial plan to redevelop the Shattuck Hospital campus that was put on pause in 2023 has now been totally scrapped.
Anthony ‘Eggy’ Searcy relocated from his native Boston to Oregon in 2022 with his fiancée, former WNBA player Ashley Walker.
Friends and family traveled from near and far last Sunday to celebrate the 106th birthday of Elide Charles, a long-time Dorchester resident who arrived in the neighborhood with her Haitian family in 1969.