

New plan keeps center-running buses, shifts bike lanes to west side of road, creates new parking and mainly keeps two lanes of traffic each direction.
A developer plans to build a 4-and-a-half-story, 20-unit condo complex at 2062 Dorchester Ave. The building would replace a currently unoccupied two-family home.

Reflecting on his 10-point primary win over first-time candidate Latoya Gayle on Tuesday, state Sen. Nick Collins says his success with voters in the First Suffolk District was powered by his long-standing work on multiple fronts his strong working relationships with colleagues in government.

A developer plans to build a 4-and-a-half-story, 20-unit condo complex at 2062 Dorchester Ave. The building would replace a currently unoccupied two-family home.

DESE Commissioner Pedro Martinez (shown here) says state officials are rethinking so-called “takeovers” of local school districts.

Volunteers from Dorchester are gathering signatures at grocery stores, MBTA stops, and community centers in an effort to get a rent-control measure on the 2026 Massachusetts ballot that, if approved, would limit rent increases for most residential units to five percent a year, or the annual rise in the Consumer Price Index, whichever is lower.
A federal appeals court has upheld the forced-labor conviction and 8 1/2-year prison sentence meted out to Stavros Papantoniadis, who used coercion and sometimes physical attacks to keep his undocumented-immigrant workers in line at his pizza shops in Roslindale, Dorchester and Norwood.

The Pearl, one of Boston’s most celebrated Black-owned restaurants, is closing its Dorchester location.

Construction is expected to start this spring and continue into 2028 on repairing a heavily traveled section of Interstate 93 in Dorchester.

Gilbert O’Neil and Uyen Le, who met on a dating app and enjoyed a whirlwind romance over the last year, officially became an engaged couple earlier this month on the rocky hilltop of Dorchester’s Savin Hill Park.

“Massachusetts is famous for having uncontested races, and because of that, people really settle in because they think no one is watching,” Gayle told The Reporter.
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