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UPDATE: The missing person was located on Thursday evening and is safe.- Editors
An urgent plea from a Dorchester parent regarding their missing daughter, Jeyla.
“Please call/message me if you see ... Read more.
Governor's Council's commutation makes murderer involved in Dorchester homicides eligible for parole
The Governor's Council on Wednesday approved a sentence commutation for convicted murderer Ramadan Shabazz, opening the door for the 73-year-old to potentially win parole 50 years after he was initially sentenced to death ... Read more.
Celebrating Christmas and the holidays West of Washington – and in most neighborhoods, for that matter – has become less about contemplating the ethereal moment of God on earth, and more about waiting for the Amazon, UPS ... Read more.
A slate of Mayor Michelle Wu’s nominees for the Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA), a powerful panel, received approval from the City Council on Wednesday.
A critic of the ZBA on the mayoral campaign trail and arguing ... Read more.
US Rep.-elect Val Hoyle (D-Oregon), a New Hampshire native who called Dorchester her home in the 1980s, returned to Boston and Cambridge last week to participate in a program for newly elected members of Congress at ... Read more.
Four Dorchester young ladies from the Boston Ballet School (BBS) are displaying their dancing talents this holiday season in Boston Ballet’s ‘The Nutcracker’ at the Citizens Bank Opera House.
Mairead and Siobhan ... Read more.
The 7th annual Halfway to Dot Day Road Race took place on Saturday, Dec. 10, on the Neponset Greenway and in Pope John Paul II Park. More than 500 registered for the event, which has no connection to the Dorchester Day ... Read more.
Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden, who was appointed to the job by Gov. Charlie Baker before winning the post in the election this fall, has named a transition and community advisory panel that will offer ... Read more.
Franklin Park spreads across 527 acres where Dorchester, Roxbury, and Jamaica Plain meet, and a new 400-page city document made public on Tuesday features upgrades over decades on just about every foot of that green space ... Read more.
Statistics kept by Boston Police show that shootings and gun violence are at an all-time-low across Boston. But, in pockets of Dorchester and Mattapan, residents say that fear and anxiety about shootings is at an all-time ... Read more.
The legal battle over the recent redrawing of City Council district lines has moved to federal court. South Boston civic groups, joined by some Dorchester and Mattapan residents, are suing over the new map, which carves ... Read more.
City officials last week (Dec. 7) took in words of support for and opposition to a proposal to convert the Comfort Inn at 900 Morrissey Blvd. into permanent supportive housing for formerly homeless people.
While ... Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved the Pot, a marijuana shop proposed for 532-542 River St. in Mattapan Square.
The shop, which won approval of the ... Read more.
A massive proposal to transform 36.5 acres of Dorchester’s Columbia Point waterfront into a mixed-use community was updated today with significant changes to plans for affordability, open space, and public amenities. ... Read more.
In Boston’s world of community violence prevention, Dr. Rufus Faulk has seen it all, attending hundreds of tragic funerals and celebrating successes when people and neighborhoods have improved. But in February, he plans ... Read more.
Joel Richards, a Boston Public Schools teacher and pastor who ran for the District 4 City Council seat in 2021, plans to make another run for office next year.
But this time he’d be running for the District 3 City ... Read more.
After years of trying for more liquor licenses, Boston is on the verge of getting five more - one for the Strand Theatre in Uphams Corner and four for the Bolling Building in Nubian Square.
The State Senate on ... Read more.
A young elementary school girl brought a firearm to school in a backpack on Friday at the Saint John Paul II Columbia Campus in Dorchester, according to Boston Police and the Archdiocese of Boston.
Boston Police ... Read more.
Two weeks ago, on Nov. 22, I found myself at a border crossing checkpoint in the small Romanian city of Radauti, where some 800,000 refugees from nearby Ukraine, mainly women and children, have sought refuge from Vladimir ... Read more.
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