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Mayor Martin Walsh will veto the City Council’s $107,500 pay raise approved by the council earlier this month, the Reporter has learned.

A source close to the mayor says he filed a response back to the council ... Read more.

Gov. Deval Patrick gave his qualified support to Boston’s bid for the 2024 Olympics in a speech at the 27th annual Governor’s Travel and Tourism Conference on Thursday afternoon.

“I think the Olympic bid is wicked ... Read more.

Minor flooding briefly forced lane closures along Morrissey Boulevard as traffic was funneled to one lane just south of the UMass Boston entrance just before noon today.

The roadway was flooded by high tides that ... Read more.

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, OCT. 22, 2014.....Seeking to secure a revenue stream for transportation projects, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh threw his support Wednesday behind the effort to defeat Question 1 on the Nov. 4 ballot. ... Read more.

Question 1: Eliminating gas tax indexing
Yes: Would eliminate the requirement that the state’s gas tax be adjusted annually according to the consumer price index.

No: Would make no change to ... Read more.

It was a school night, but that didn’t stop the 75 or so young people clustered in St. Mary’s Church in Uphams Corner from heading out to knock on doors in the evening hours of Wed., Oct. 15. Many of them were teen-agers ... Read more.

Gov. Deval Patrick will be checking out the newest academic building to rise on the Dorchester campus of UMass Boston today as one stop on a whirlwind trip across the commonwealth to visit higher education institutions ... Read more.

A Dorchester man who struck and killed a cyclist on Morrissey Boulevard in 2012 was convicted of felony motor vehicle homicide last week in Suffolk Superior Court. Jurors found that Michael Ahern, 49, was drunk and ... Read more.

On Monday, students, parents, teachers and lawmakers gathered at the State House for a ceremony to commemorate the 375th anniversary of the Mather School. The school, which sits atop Meetinghouse Hill in Dorchester, is ... Read more.

A trio of artists— each hoping to win a competition for the chance to create a new sculpture inside Town Field in Fields Corner— displayed models of their proposed works at a community meeting on Monday evening at the ... Read more.

Mayor Marty Walsh said that recent false alarms and lessons from Texas and abroad are helping Boston prepare for what he considers a low probability of an Ebola case in Boston.

“If we get an Ebola case, clearly we’ ... Read more.

The path to the corner office runs through the Haitian community for any aspiring governor, according to Gov. Deval Patrick – and he would know. “You cannot win without the Haitian community. You shouldn't even try ... Read more.

Councillor Frank Baker’s idea to study turning branches of the city’s public libraries into mixed-use spaces was well-received at Wednesday’s meeting of the Boston City Council.

The ... Read more.

After more than 20 years, City Councillor Charles Yancey’s proposed state-of-the art high school in Mattapan is within reach after the measure was initially approved at the City Council meeting on Wednesday.

“This ... Read more.

Future of Morrissey Blvd. site is very much on Mayor Walsh’s mind

Mayor Martin Walsh hopes that the sale of the massive Boston Globe property on Morrissey Boulevard will result in a new mixed-use ... Read more.

Bill Walczak, the pioneering Dorchester civic and health activist who was a candidate for mayor of Boston last year, will join one of the city's leading progressive foundations as its first president. Walczak will lead ... Read more.

A former Dorchester resident was sentenced to 18-20 years in state prison today after he admitted he raped a woman walking home from the Savin Hill MBTA stop on Oct. 30, 1992.

Terry Abercrombie, 52, had avoided ... Read more.

A Quincy man was ordered held without bail Tuesday on charges he fatally stabbed another man in the neck outside the Chung Wah take-out place at 199 Bowdoin St. Thursday evening, the Suffolk County District Attorney's ... Read more.

The corner of Dudley Street and East Cottage Street in Dorchester will be dedicated to longtime community leader Sr. Margaret Leonard in a ceremony on Friday, Oct. 31. Sr. Leonard is the executive director of Project Hope ... Read more.

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