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Twelve years ago Andy Schroeder and Debbie Munson bought a one-family home near Ashmont Hill. They fell in love with the neighborhood, joined the local civic group, and became bike and park advocates. But the house cost a ... Read more.

An angry city licensing head on Tuesday ordered the Chez Vous roller rink to work with police on a new security plan, after hearing details of a Feb. 12 incident in which a group of 14- and 15-year-old girls coming out of ... Read more.

The Martin Richard Foundation is organizing a community clean-up, a memorial ceremony in Peabody Square and a three-mile run to commemorate the third anniversary of ... Read more.

A helicopter equipped with radiation-sensing technology will make several low passes over the Boston Marathon route later this week to measure naturally occurring background radiation ahead of the 120th Boston Marathon ... Read more.

A Hyde Park man is charged with shooting a man over an argument he initially had nothing to do with inside the T-Mobile store on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan Square Wednesday afternoon, the Suffolk County District ... Read more.

Three Democrats have already lined up to run for the 7th Suffolk District House seat, which veteran Rep. Gloria Fox will relinquish this fall after more than 30 years representing Roxbury on Beacon Hill.

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Dorchester spoken-word artist U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo is just one of more than a dozen Massachusetts female artists and ensembles who will gather at Hibernian Hall this Friday and Saturday evening for the Third Annual “We ... Read more.

Boston’s building boom has triggered furious growth in the city’s culinary scene with new restaurants popping up across the neighborhoods.

The city’s public vocational high school – Madison Park Technical ... Read more.

General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will address students at the Boston College High School’s 153rd commencement on May 22.

Gen. Dunford is the nation’s highest-ranking military ... Read more.

A proposal for a mixed-use, five-story building at 1943 Dorchester Ave. in Peabody Square faced pushback from community members at its first public airing Monday evening.

Attendees at the Boston ... Read more.

Former City Councillor At-Large Stephen Murphy is taking his re-election loss last November in stride and pursuing the suddenly hotly contested post for Suffolk Register of Deeds. In a conversation with the Reporter this ... Read more.

Two home rule petitions – extending the term of office for Boston city councillors and limiting candidates to running for a single office at a time – were voted through at the council meeting on Wednesday.

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Construction of a new three-story, mixed use development on the site of the former Lucky Strike bowling lanes will be complete by June with residents moving into the complex’s 22 apartment units by August. That’s the ... Read more.

Proponents of a new Cape Verdean restaurant at 33 Hancock St. contended with the building’s troubled history at an abutters meeting in Uphams Crossing on Tuesday night. The management team of the proposed eatery spoke to ... Read more.

(Updated, Wed., April 6)- There is a new commander on watch in Dorchester's Area C-11 police district.

Capt. Tim Connolly assumed command at the Gibson Street station house effective Monday, April 4. He replaces ... Read more.

While the MBTA's draft five-year capital plan does not include funding for subway-like railcars to run along inner-city commuter tracks, Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack indicated such service could potentially ... Read more.

Authorities released video footage today that shows a man pacing around outside Who's on First ... Read more.

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