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Dorchester’s Dennis Lehane will be back in Boston next month to talk about his new novel, “Small Mercies,” which is set amid the tumult of desegregation and busing in 1974 Boston.

He will speak on Sun., March 3, ... Read more.

On Sat., Jan.13, The BASE hosted its 8th annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. College, Career, and Health Fair at the Melnea Cass Recreation Complex in Roxbury. The fair brought together more than 40 colleges and 20 ... Read more.

The Mayor’s Office and the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) are in the early stages of making major changes to how development is planned and executed in and around business districts, with Dorchester’s ... Read more.

Boston College High School held its annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Prayer Service on their Dorchester campus on Jan. 12. Co-hosted by BC High’s Black Latino Student Union, the school welcomed peers from Cristo Rey Boston ... Read more.

A Citizens Bank branch that opened last fall on a site at Blue Hill Avenue and Morton Street that once featured a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise and then sat vacant for more than a decade was officially welcomed to the ... Read more.

The former Our Saviour’s Lutheran church space at 500 Talbot Avenue near the intersection with Welles Avenue is making way for a four-story mixed-use development with 42 rental units, 23 underground parking slots, and ... Read more.

As she waits for the Legislature to dig into her detailed proposal to deal with the housing access and affordability crisis, Gov. Healey announced on Monday that 26 housing projects across Massachusetts, including two ... Read more.

A Tewksbury development company with a history of developing housing projects around Boston has purchased a prominent building at the intersection of Talbot and Blue Hill avenues and a lot behind the building on Angell ... Read more.

Potentially teeing up a new round of debate about how the state funds public transit, MBTA officials last Friday rolled out a dire financial forecast that projects a sizable operating budget shortfall this year and a ... Read more.

An attorney representing a group of abutters who oppose a city-approved plan for 72 units of affordable housing next to Shawmut station has filed a lawsuit for their cause in a special session of the Suffolk Superior ... Read more.

Three days after announcing a push to give cities and towns more control over how many liquor licenses they issue, Gov. Healey opted against actually putting the idea before lawmakers despite it winning support from the ... Read more.

A Thursday morning funeral is planned at St. Gregory church in Lower Mills for Msgr. Paul Ryan, who died last week at the age of 92. He served at parishes in Lowell, Mattapan, Brookline, and Hyde Park, and was the pastor ... Read more.

The Department of Conservation and Recreation will host a public meeting to discuss the Ryan Park and Playground 25% Design on Thurs., Feb. 1, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. via Zoom. After the meeting, the ... Read more.

A new multi-use path along the Red Line tunnel cap from Fields Corner to Ashmont has been a pie-in-the-sky dream for residents going back decades, but those dreams are inching closer to reality with funding in place to ... Read more.

Dorchester’s political leaders are turning their attention to the emerging crisis involving Steward Health Care, which owns Dorchester’s Carney Hospital. District 3 City Councillor John FitzGerald has asked his colleagues ... Read more.

The operator of 9 Massachusetts hospitals says financial challenges are jeopardizing its ability to keep them running, which could leave patients struggling to access care and result in thousands of layoffs for health ... Read more.

A Dorchester couple made their prime time TV debut on Monday night. David and Stephen St. Russell— known as the “Renovation Husbands”—are featured in HGTV’s newest show “Battle on the Mountain,” which premiered on Monday ... Read more.

As another new year comes and the old one goes, I have been reflecting on what gives me hope and joy. Thirty-five years ago, Father William Francis and Sister Rita Brereton, SSND, of what was then St. Paul’s Parish in ... Read more.

Beleaguered public transit, K-12 education, and the growing climate and clean energy technology sector would all get major boosts in state funding under Gov. Maura Healey's vision for the year ahead.

In a State of ... Read more.

When John Hand and Nancy Flynn went into business together 42 years ago and set up Dorchester Door & Window, their first location was on Freeport Street, where, Flynn noted, their little shop had no windows – and not ... Read more.

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