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Developers trying to get the city’s approval for transit-oriented housing near Shawmut Station showed off their latest plans last week, scoring points with supporters but making little headway against neighborhood ... Read more.

Incumbent at-large City Councillor Erin Murphy outpaced her colleagues in fundraising during the month of September, according to data from the Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OCPF) released on Tuesday.

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Nestled in womb chairs on a platform, four of the eight candidates seeking at-large seats on the Boston City Council in the Nov. 7 election fielded questions last Tuesday night (Oct. 3) from more than eighty students at a ... Read more.

City officials on Friday announced $5 million in internet accessibility upgrades and instructional programs for the Boston Housing Authority’s 17 developments, including Mattapan’s Hassan Apartments, home to an elderly ... Read more.

The Nightingale Gardens farmers combined efforts with the Trustees and Dorchester Food Co-Op to stage their annual harvest party last Sunday (Oct. 1) in the garden on Park Street near Codman Square.

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I am a gay Irish Catholic Dorchester Democrat. I am the co-chair of the Ward 15 Democratic Party Committee. Nothing was more consistent and natural to me then supporting Maura Healey for attorney general and then for ... Read more.

To the Editor:

I have been a resident of the Melville Park neighborhood of Dorchester for 36 years, and in that time have seen much change.  I have been active in the Melville Park Association, one of the many ... Read more.

Massachusetts is troubled by two stubbornly persistent shortages of opportunities for our urban youth, and workers for our rapidly growing health, life sciences, and clean energy industries. Data show our tech boom is ... Read more.

Samuel F. Perkins lived at 14 Rockmere St. He invented the man-carrying kite and continued experimentation on his creation from 1910 through the first World War and into the 1920s.

Perkins demonstrated his kites ... Read more.

The construction timeline for the Fields Corner Library now projects that the facility will be closed for 20 months, starting next spring 2024. The scheduling was laid out at the final design meeting last Wednesday (Sept ... Read more.

There is the old expression, “The dog ate my homework,” but Bailey, a four-year-old male Maltipoo, promotes literacy instead of digesting it.
Stacy Siegal adopted her furry friend when he was a puppy and quickly ... Read more.

Community members are invited by the Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight, in partnership with the Edward M. Kennedy Institute and the Massachusetts Municipal Association, to attend an Open ... Read more.

They marched, they protested, and they gathered detailed proof that the Boston Public Schools were racially separate and unequal.

When a stubborn school committee failed to acknowledge the problem and provide ... Read more.

When Auston Harris looked out on the newly finished garden and open space on Magnolia Street last week, he recalled the early days of the effort when he was a teen-ager who joined with other volunteers to dig out polluted ... Read more.

Members of the Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association were told by two senior leaders at a meeting on Monday night that they had been “approached by a local developer with an offer for $750,000 to us” that the association ... Read more.

As a lifelong Dorchester resident, I grew up seeing my neighbors feeling forgotten by our city government. I heard the frustrations from residents struggling to get what they needed, while other neighborhoods seemed to ... Read more.

Joining with a representative from Mattapan and a senator from Springfield, Attorney General Andrea Campbell last week filed legislation to establish a way for her office to distribute to communities disproportionately ... Read more.

The horrific murder of an 11-year-old girl four decades ago in Dorchester’s Ronan Park is again stirring emotions as a proposal to re-name a playground inside the park as a memorial to the victim is under consideration by ... Read more.

Attorney General Andrea Campbell has filed a lawsuit against two companies that her office claims violated fair housing and consumer protection laws involving tenants in the Olmsted Green development in Dorchester.

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Legislators grilled Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and other city officials for more than an hour Monday over a home rule petition that would dramatically expand the volume of liquor licenses in city neighborhoods. Proposals ... Read more.

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