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Police are looking for a man they say pointe a gun at an officer around 11 p.m. outside the Lee K-8 School on Talbot Avenue in Dorchester. The officer shot at the man, then chased him to a fence at the cemetery behind the ... Read more.

Anyone who has driven down Adams street near Victory Road at this time of year in the past decade or ... Read more.

A web-based system for criminal background checks is helping ex-offenders in Massachusetts apply for jobs and other opportunities without being automatically disqualified, while sentencing reform has led to nearly 400 ... Read more.

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Keron Pierre, 29, of Mattapan of murdering three people outside a house party on March 29, 2009.

The verdicts mean a mandatory sentence of life without possibility of ... Read more.

Two Washington Street business also targeted in gun-related incidents on Thursday

A group of teenagers allegedly beat and robbed a man at gunpoint on Thursday evening as he walked along Ashmont ... Read more.

New state-mandated health coverage benefits beginning in 2015 for services such as alcohol and drug counseling or abuse-deterrent opioids will add roughly $2 to $18 a year to the cost of an annual policy, according to ... Read more.

Thursday (18th) – MassDOT hosts public meeting about plans to improve the intersection of Morton Street and Gallivan Blvd. with a $1.2 million project. Meeting starts at 7 p.m. at the Charles H. Taylor ... Read more.

Evidentiary hearings in the retrial motion of Dorchester resident Sean K. Ellis, who was convicted in 1995 of the 1993 murder of Boston Police Det. John Mulligan, wrapped up last week with the testimony of retired Boston ... Read more.

Back from California where he helped make the pitch for Boston to host the 2024 summer Olympics, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh on Wednesday said proponents put on a "strong performance" but added that bringing the games to ... Read more.

Two buildings in Mattapan undergoing renovation this month are in the spotlight as the city continues to scramble to find space to house homeless people who were displaced by the abrupt closure of shelter facilities on ... Read more.

Four prospective buyers are vying for what could be the cheapest piece of real estate in the city: a former comfort station on Columbia Road that the city of Boston put on the market this fall. The minimum bid for a ... Read more.

Danielle Legros Georges, a resident of Dorchester, will begin a four year-term as the city of Boston’s official Poet Laureate in January. Georges, a native of Haiti who teaches Creative Arts at Lesley University, is a ... Read more.

Robert Kraft, New England Patriots Chairman and CEO and New England Patriots players visited Edward Everett Elementary School in Dorchester on Monday to give the school grant money to build a new playground and make ... Read more.

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, DEC. 16, 2014.....Governor-elect Charlie Baker on Tuesday expressed enthusiasm about the possibility of the Olympics coming to Massachusetts as backers of a Boston bid for the 2024 summer games ... Read more.

Vote is 5-4; dissenter questions quorum count

A breakthrough in the decades-long impasse over the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade organizers’ exclusion of gay and lesbian marchers appears to ... Read more.

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