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City officials and local developers are closely monitoring the effects of inflation and higher interest rates on real estate and the construction markets, two areas that have boomed in recent years. City officials are ... Read more.

The annual “Nutcracker” show, a longtime feature by the Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre at the Strand Theatre and elsewhere, has slipped off its pointe shoes and ended production for this year’s edition. Citing protocols for ... Read more.

Looking to kickstart the redevelopment of 70 city-owned lots across Dorchester and Mattapan into affordable housing, city officials will launch a community input effort this weekend.

Most of the lots are north and ... Read more.

Gov. Baker last week signed a $3.76 billion economic development package that includes millions for a new Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center and the Dorchester Field House planned for Columbia Point.

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Redistricting, like elections, is about the future. That didn’t stop at least one councillor, angry over the new boundaries of his Dorchester district and the carving of Neponset, from inexplicably bringing up the ... Read more.

Rendering of proposed apartments at 900 Morrissey Blvd.

Pine Street Inn and the Community Builders have filed plans with the BPDA to convert the Comfort Inn at 900 Morrissey Blvd. into a 104-unit apartment building with ... Read more.

Boston Celtics and New Balance executives joined Celtics sharpshooter Sam Hauser and dozens of young people from the Dorchester YMCA in Codman Square last Thursday to break in a newly refurbished basketball court.

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Fields Corner has become the “hot spot” in the city for Bubble Tea and other Asian drinks and desserts, thanks to its cluster of Vietnamese businesses that were well poised to capitalize on an international surge of ... Read more.

A Linden Street resident who wants to replace a single-family ranch home at 61 Linden St. with a three-story, six-unit building received mixed reviews at the Fields Corner Civic Association (FCCA) meeting on Nov. 1.

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City Councillor Frank Baker recently raised the specter of the conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland as he objected to a new map of Boston City Council districts that was proposed by City ... Read more.

The largest city in Massachusetts is not on pace to reduce carbon emissions by 50 percent by 2030, according to Northeastern University researchers, who describe Boston’s goal as “likely out of reach” in a new report. ... Read more.

District Attorney Kevin Hayden and Boston Police responded this afternoon to another brazen daytime homicide, this time at the corner of Paxton and Harvard Streets in Dorchester- one in a string of violent incidents over ... Read more.

Facing what parents called an “unexpected pivot” by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston (RCAB) regarding the future of St. Brendan’s church and school, scores of students and parents staged a noisy, but peaceful ... Read more.

Workshops centered on the cleanup of the Lower Neponset River get underway in earnest this week, with the first of three set for Thursday evening in Milton. The session will be both in-person and virtual inside the Milton ... Read more.

To the Editor:

Thank you to our Seventh Congressional District representative, Ayanna Pressley, on her signing last month of the letter to the Biden administration advising negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. ... Read more.

For a second time this year, Dorchester Youth Hockey (DYH) families and the community at large are rallying around a young player recently diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

Thomas Lucas, 12, was diagnosed with ... Read more.

On Fri., Oct. 28, the Construction Leadership Council of the Associated General Contractors of Massachusetts (AGC MA) renovated and restored the McLaughlin Center and the Marr Clubhouse of the Boys & Girls Club of ... Read more.

Boston Police and the Mattapan leaders found themselves aligned on Monday night during a conversation meant to fill a “void” of information and direction that has left the neighborhood in shock following a slate of ... Read more.

Mayor Michelle Wu on Monday formally ended a raucous political brouhaha on Monday when she signed off on a map that redraws the boundaries of the nine City Council districts a year before voters go to the polls for the ... Read more.

For Maura Healey and Andrea Campbell, Tuesday’s election was a day to set some markers.

Healey, a South End resident, easily dispatched her Republican opponent for governor to become the first woman, and the first ... Read more.

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