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The Hendry Street Neighborhood Watch will be hosting a block party on Hendry Street on Saturday, July 30, from 12-5 p.m. The festivities will include awards, food, games, and music.

The block party is also ... Read more.

Gov. Deval Patrick was a Harvard University junior in 1976. The Cambridge campus was a “relatively safe and comfortable,” he recalled. “But you never knew then what you were going to get when you went off campus,” Patrick ... Read more.

Ask the average Bay State voter – or, at the very least, one who paid attention to last year’s gubernatorial contest – about a controversial wind farm located out in the ocean, and their thoughts are likely to turn to ... Read more.

Low-wage workers in so-called quick service restaurants like coffee and sandwich shops would be further strapped financially under a House-approved bill that would allow certain managers to share in pooled tips, according ... Read more.

Above, a report on the Neponset Greenway from the non-profit ... Read more.

The rehabilitation and replacement of a major water pipeline in Lower Mills enters its toughest phase on Monday, Aug. 1. That phase includes shutting down a portion of Washington Street where Jersey barriers will go up at ... Read more.

The Uphams Corner and Grove Hall post offices are among six in Boston and 3,700 across the country on list of outlets the US Postal Service is considering closing. The Uphams Corner branch is located on Columbia Road, ... Read more.

Boston Police said Tuesday afternoon that Pierre Emmanuel, 32, of Dorchester, missing since Monday night, was located near Maverick MBTA station in East Boston.

Emmanuel, who has Down syndrome, was transported to a ... Read more.

As advocates for urban communities laid out the challenges facing black residents in Boston - in health care, education and criminal justice - Gov. Deval Patrick described Monday a "very different Boston" than the one he ... Read more.

Boston Police report finding Alessa Castellon, 21, shot to death around 3:05 a.m. at 50 Granger St.

Junior Fernandes, 22, of Dorchester, was arrested on charges of murder, unlawful possession of a firearm and ... Read more.

Warning that the extreme heat conditions now being experienced in Boston "can cause regular activities to quickly become dangerous situations,” Mayor Menino this afternoon extended a heat advisory for another day. ... Read more.

Food trucks are on their way to Dorchester and Mattapan. Starting next month, expect one to be stationed at the Ashmont MBTA stop on Friday afternoons; another could soon come to the Mattapan T station.

“We figured ... Read more.

After playing “Dirty Water” by The Standells on his radio webcast, Russ “Rusty” LeBlanc expresses a sentiment shared by many of his listeners. “Not crazy about the water. I like the town, though.”

LeBlanc hosts the ... Read more.

St. Peter’s parishioners and Bowdoin-Geneva neighbors voiced both strong support and opposition during a discussion last Wednesday on the development of the parish’s former convent, located at the western end of the St. ... Read more.

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