




For the second cycle in a row, U.S. Sen. Ed Markey has dispatched a primary challenge from another member of the state’s all-Democrat congressional delegation, cruising to victory Tuesday over U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton and positioning himself one election away from another six-year term.
Polls across Boston will be open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m.

Marcus McNeill, a 22-year-old Fields Corner native, is a key go-between for residents and City Hall services.

Polls across Boston will be open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m.

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.

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

It’s rare that 24 hours click off the clock without Bill Richard’s shadow casting its lean frame onto the 2.5-acre construction site of the Fieldhouse+ on Mount Vernon Street in Dorchester.

The discussion, presented in partnership with Massachusetts Action for Justice and the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance, will focus on the housing crisis that gripped parts of Dorchester from roughly 1968 to 1972.
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