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After months of discussion and logistical planning, the Boston Police Department’s body camera pilot program is tentatively scheduled to begin early next month, according to BPD officials who had been hoping for an ... Read more.
City Councillor Andrea Campbell last week pitched Mattapan community members on a November ballot question that would institute a city tax surcharge that would provide funds for historic preservation, parks, and housing ... Read more.
Boston Police report a man and a woman were shot around 12:05 a.m., Saturday, at 6 Dudley Terrace, off Dudley Street.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene; the woman was taken to a local hospital with life- ... Read more.
State Rep. Evandro Carvalho, running for re-election in the Fifth Suffolk District after winning the seat in a special election in 2014, is facing challenges from perennial candidate Althea Garrison, who held the position ... Read more.
Boston firefighter and organized labor leader Ed Kelly was elected to a leadership position in the International Association of Fire Fighters, a union that says it represents "more than 300,000 full-time professional fire ... Read more.
The five-story Hub 25 apartment development adjacent to the JFK-UMass MBTA station on Morrissey Boulevard is expected to be completed next month, said community manager Valerie Molchanova on Aug. 8 as she laid out the ... Read more.
Hunched around a meeting table late one evening in early May, stomachs full of pizza, members of the Franklin Park Coalition committee searching for a new executive director turned their eyes toward one of their own. ... Read more.
After six years at the helm of the Mattahunt Community Center in Mattapan, Wheelock College has turned operational and financial control back to the city of Boston, where it will once again be run under the aegis of ... Read more.
As the fall semester nears, a pair of UMass Boston construction projects principally aimed at relocating utility infrastructure on Columbia Point remain in progress this month. Part of the work— along the perimeter road ... Read more.
Dorchester Park, our own nationally recognized landmark in Lower Mills, will celebrate the 125th year with a festive gala on Friday, Sept. 9 beginning at 7 p.m.
Set in the park under a festive tent, the event ... Read more.
With an investment of more than $90 million announced Monday, the state is attempting to disrupt the cycle of poverty and homelessness by generating affordable rental housing units and connecting residents of some of ... Read more.
The City of Boston and Hubway opened the first of ten new bike-share docking stations this week in Dorchester and Roxbury, including one in Bowdoin-Geneva.
Nine of the ten Roxbury and Dorchester stations already ... Read more.
Bunker Hill Community College and College Bound Dorchester will team up to train students in the maritime trades. The Baker-Polito administration funded the program on Tuesday with a $450,000 grant, part of a larger ... Read more.
This fall, the Celebrity Series of Boston is bringing back the “Play Me, I’m Yours” street piano project that was such a crowd-pleaser here in 2013.
From Sept. 23 through Oct. 10, Street Pianos Boston will feature ... Read more.
A new city campaign aimed at getting landlords to ban smoking inside their properties was launched last week. The Boston Public Health Commission is leading the “Go Smoke-Free” effort, which includes original photography ... Read more.
Auto magnate Herb Chambers, who hopes to build a 216,000-square-foot dealership on Morrissey Boulevard, told the Reporter this week that he has “no knowledge” of what the potential buyers of the Boston Globe property ... Read more.
The Boston Police Department reports officers investigating a call about an unconscious man in the yard of the Oliver Wendell Holmes on School Street around 6 a.m. on Wednesday found a sleeping man with a gun tucked under ... Read more.
The Boston Police Department reports a man in his 30s was shot to death around 11:40 p.m. on Friday at 21 Algonquin St. Police say he was shot repeatedly.
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Nestled beneath towering trees beside the Dorchester North Burying Ground sits a small, gray-sided building once used to shelter riders awaiting the next streetcar along Columbia Road. The streetcars no longer come by, ... Read more.
Using authority granted under a law just signed by Gov. Charlie Baker, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh plans to work with the city council to lower the default speed limit in Boston from 30 miles per hour to 25 miles per hour ... Read more.
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