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Responding to a request for proposals issued by the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) earlier this year, two teams vying to redevelop a city-owned block in Uphams Corner presented differing visions to the ... Read more.

City councillors were barreling toward the finish line on redistricting, with a plan to vote Wednesday on a map redrawing Boston’s political boundaries. But a last-minute complaint from South Boston groups of an Open ... Read more.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today agreed to reconsider its decision in May to reject a plan by the Polish- ... Read more.

Martin Richard Field House rendering

The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved plans by the Martin Richard Foundation and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester for a three-story field house on Mt. Vernon Street in Dorchester that will include ... Read more.

State Police report a man trying to walk across I-93 near South Bay made it across the southbound side and the median OK ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reportss a woman was shot to death at 40 Fairlawn Ave., in the SoMa Apartments complex off Cummins Highway and Richmere Road in Mattapan, ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports that a man who was found shot in the head at 39 Baird St. around 1 a.m. on Saturday was taken to a local hospital, where he was ... Read more.

City councillors have five maps in their hands as they seek to redraw the political boundaries of the nine districts. But they still haven’t fully decided which route they want to take.

Most of the 13-member ... Read more.

Firefighters at Brookview Street fire.

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters used a ladder to rescue two adults and a child from a two-alarm fire at 31 Brookview St. in Dorchester early Friday morning.

The department reports firefighters ... Read more.

A common theme in the latest redistricting process over the past month is everyone has his or her own map. So, I’ve also decided to release my own map – the “Moe Map.”

As a Charlestown resident here on the very ... Read more.

Dorchester Open Studios will be held this weekend, Oct. 22-23, from 11a.m. to 5 p.m. at two locations: Humphreys Street Studios and Dorchester Art Project in Fields Corner. Organizers say they expect 45-plus artists at ... Read more.

Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden has named Migdalia Iris Nalls as chief of the office›s juvenile unit. Nalls has served as a trial attorney in the Committee for Public Counsel Services Youth Advocacy Division since ... Read more.

Mass Humanities recently announced it has awarded $713,876 in Expand Massachusetts Stories (EMS) grants to 42 cultural nonprofit organizations across the state, including four projects in Dorchester totaling $74,576. ... Read more.

Annissa Essaibi George

Annissa Essaibi George, a Dorchester native and former mayoral candidate, will start as president and CEO of Big Sister Boston, a nonprofit organization focused serving 2,500 women and girls in the Greater Boston area. ... Read more.

Mayor Wu last week announced the first members of Black Men Lead Boston, a new program launched by the Mayor’s Office of Black Male Advancement (BMA) that is designed for Black men between the ages of 18 and 35 in the ... Read more.

The Boys & Girls Club of Boston (BGCB) honored its Hall of Fame Class of 2022 with a special induction ceremony at the organization’s 128th annual meeting last Thursday night at the Westin Copley Place.

The new ... Read more.

Between scenic shots of the High Speed Trolley clicking through the falling snow, of water rushing along the lush banks of the Neponset, and of the Blue Hill Avenue streetscape, teen film director Moses Sibley of the ... Read more.

Frankline Mardi honed her teaching skills in Dorchester at Roxbury Prep’s Magnolia Street campus, but her love of teaching goes back to when she was a student and helped tutor her mother.

Mardi, 28, a Dorchester ... Read more.

The Madison Park Technical Vocational High School campus's redevelopment process received kudos earlier this week for moving forward but loud jeers for the methods used to inform and perform the meeting.

A kick-off ... Read more.

As the contractor is about to mobilize on the MBTA’s Codman Yard project, officials reassured neighbors at a virtual meeting on Oct. 13 that they would adjust traffic plans on Hillsdale Street – a major point of ... Read more.

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