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Union plumbers, contractors, and industry leaders rallied at the State House last Thursday to advocate for protecting the state’s plumbing codes, build partnerships on green energy transition, and petition legislators on ... Read more.
Public meetings on development projects often become tense affairs, as supporters and opponents clash over the size of proposals, traffic, and parking as plans undergo review from the Boston Planning and Development ... Read more.
More than 200 Black women leaders past and present will be honored with street pole banners along Blue Hill Avenue (from Quincy Street to Franklin Park), Washington Street, and Seaver Street in Grove Hall this summer in ... Read more.
Cutting the ribbon on a new cannabis dispensary or getting state approvals for marketing marijuana can seem like a normal course of business these days in Boston. But for a number of Dorchester operatives, the possession ... Read more.
The planned re-opening of the Curley Community Center in South Boston, which is finally ready for use after a $23.3 million renovation project, has been delayed by more than a year-and-a-half by a cascade of problems, ... Read more.
A federal judge has told the City Council that it has to redraw the map of the political boundaries of its nine district seats that councillors had approved last fall after sparring over its outlines for months.
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Mayor Michelle Wu sat down for a wide-ranging interview with the Reporter in her City Hall office this week as she prepares to launch a multi-week tour of neighborhood parks, beginning in Fields Corner’s Town Field on ... Read more.
Brothers Deli is an essential part of Mattapan Square, opening at 7:30 a.m. seven days a week to serve up hearty breakfasts, scrambled eggs and grits, and other fare for the steady stream of people coming in off Blue Hill ... Read more.
Candidates for City Council district seats, who are gathering voter signatures for their runs for office, spent Tuesday in limbo as City Hall officials scrambled to react to a federal judge ordering councillors to create ... Read more.
Dorchester resident John FitzGerald, the 41-year-old son of a legendary state lawmaker and a veteran of City Hall, has joined the race to succeed District 3 Councillor Frank Baker.
The field has continued to grow ... Read more.
The City Council must make another attempt at redrawing the political boundaries of its nine district seats, a US federal judge ordered on Monday.
Councillors verbally sparred for months last fall before a 9-4 vote ... Read more.
The Boston Police Department reports that two men were shot outside 66 Wildwood St. near Morton Street around 8:30 p.m. on Sunday.
Both men were transported to ... Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter is celebrating our 40th anniversary this year!
On May 3, our friends from WCVB Ch. 5 ... Read more.
The owner of 1420 Dorchester Ave., until recently home to a 7-Eleven, has filed plans with the BPDA to build a four-story, 41-unit residential ... Read more.
Just as maddening to residents of our neighborhood is the lack of support by our city government – in this case, the Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA), district Councillor Frank Baker, and At-large Council members Michael ... Read more.
“These are surely strange times we’re living in, Mike, with Biden’s faculties starting to slip and Trump long over the edge. Do you think we’ll ever get back to what was once considered normal?”
“To tell you the ... Read more.
In 2021, 5,190 workers died on the job across the United States, including 97 workers in Massachusetts. Each day, 14 people suffer work-related deaths.
These numbers remind us of the dangers many workers face. ... Read more.
A man who faces charges of dropping off a large tool bag containing a safe filled with fireworks and wires at Harvard University as part of an extortion plot bought much of the package of the pieces at South Bay Home ... Read more.
“Open Streets,” last year’s event that temporarily shut down Dorchester Avenue to traffic and opened it up to pedestrians, is scheduled to return on Sun., Sept. 17. The shutdown will stretch a little over a mile between ... Read more.
City officials are shopping around three conceptual designs for a planned re-configuration of Mattapan Square – including one with center-running bus lanes and parallel parking – and expect to have decisions made by the ... Read more.
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