A development team that includes the Archdiocese of Boston’s Planning Office for Urban Affairs has filed plans for a 105-unit affordable housing project in Mattapan.
The roadway repair project, focused on the stretch between Fairway to Harvard Street, began in 2024.
A gathering at the Mattapan Teen Center (MTC) on Fri., April 10, night that was billed as community meeting was actually a surprise party to salute the center’s director Rick
State lawmakers who serve on the Joint Ways and Means Committee gathered on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan last week to discuss their spending priorities in front of a roomful
Tracking the long-and-winding road towards making major improvements to the Blue Hill Avenue corridor.
A man who had his first-degree murder conviction for a fatal 2018 shooting in Mattapan overturned – after he’d spent five years in prison – today filed a wrongful-conviction suit
Two men who run neighboring micro-markets on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan Square – one just 150 square feet – were arrested today on federal charges they paid cash for
A man charged with murder in a fatal stabbing in Mattapan last weekend is one of more than 200 defendants who saw their criminal cases dismissed in October due to
A local man was charged with interfering with an election official, interfering with a voter and assault and battery on a police officer after he allegedly tried to make off
Bathed in the reds, yellows, and oranges of fall, the tree-lined paths of the newly restored Mattahunt Woods showcased a complete revival last Friday (Oct. 24) from forgotten dumping ground
Neighbors on Woodhaven and Culbert streets in Mattapan are pressing for relief from city officials this week as a pair of construction projects are disrupting daily life on the side
A state agency has sold a 10-acre parcel of land on the former Mattapan State Hospital property to a development team that plans to build 287 new housing units— the
Boston’s bike share system is expanding throughout Dorchester, Mattapan, Roxbury and Jamaica Plain, with 20 new Bluebikes stations to be installed in those neighborhoods. City officials hosted an open house
Mattapan’s Canterbury Brook might as well be the Loch Ness Monster. Few have actually seen it, no one is quite sure if it’s real, and it disappears right after it
One hundred newly sworn-in Boston Police officers began their assignments in districts across the city last Monday (Sept. 8) including at Area C-11 and Area B-3, the two largest districts
For ten young people from Dorchester, Mattapan, and Roxbury, the summer of 2025 was a time when words like urban agriculture and food justice turned into reality with their participation
With the sound of the starter’s horn, 380 participants in the first-ever Mattapan Unity 5K were off and running on Saturday morning.
