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Rendering of proposed new condos, with existing convent building and new rear addition, next to old St. Matthew

The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday deferred a vote on a developer's proposal to turn the former St. Matthew convent, 43-45 Stanton St. in Dorchester, into 14 ... Read more.

Taking aim at an issue that has plagued service for eight months, MBTA General Manager Phil Eng on Thursday rolled out a comprehensive plan to repair tracks across the system and lift all speed restrictions by the end of ... Read more.

The Veterans Day holiday will be observed this week on Friday (Nov. 10). All trash, recycling, and food waste curbside collection will run on a regular schedule in all Boston neighborhoods. There will be no delays in ... Read more.

Bucking the trend of flipping commercial/industrial property into housing along Dorchester Avenue, New Bedford-based Plumbing Supply Co. has purchased long-time supply house Ellsworth Plumbing with plans to improve the ... Read more.

Massport and Boston’s electrical workers union and its highly rated joint apprenticeship training center are teaming up to create more career pathways in the communities they serve. 

On Fri, Oct. 27, Massport CEO ... Read more.

After 32 years of leadership, Deborah Hughes is retiring from her role as president and CEO of the Brookview House, a non-profit organization in Dorchester led by Black and Latinx women that works for justice, equity, and ... Read more.

Massachusetts has long led the nation in planning and implementing climate action strategies. The Healey administration has further upped the game by appointing Melissa Hoffer, the nation’s first state climate chief, to a ... Read more.

“Never Again!” It’s often the rallying cry against the Holocaust ever being repeated. People vowing to not let it happen. We hear it now after Hamas’s actions on October 7.

But I heard the words “never again” from ... Read more.

Serving as Massachusetts state auditor doesn’t just mean reviewing finances. A big part of my role, as I often speak about with folks across the state, is reviewing the performance and efficacy of the Commonwealth’s ... Read more.

Lou Daly, an old friend and sign painter from Fields Corner, once told me that he had no interest in war memorials or days commemorating military victories. Anybody who has been in war only wants to forget it, if they can ... Read more.

Dorchester’s Susan Brinkman likes bugs a lot, she says, so much so that she has written a poem about butterflies that was published this month in the nationally acclaimed Cricket Magazine.

The 11-year-old Brinkman ... Read more.

The energy to improve long-neglected Codman Square Park in the heart of Dorchester Center was so great that the community sparked the Parks Department to take action and join in the momentum.

That grassroots effort ... Read more.

The state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) has finalized a $2.2 million contract to make improvements to the popular wading pool feature at Mattapan’s Ryan Playground and construction began this week at ... Read more.

With their triplets Rosalie, Rocco, and Regan, and younger daughter Reese, Gianna and Neal Mullane’s family of six is enough to form their own starting lineup. But for now, the threesome of eight-year-olds is taking the ... Read more.

For more than two decades, it was a symbol of decay and disinvestment – a once-bustling, but now-abandoned Boston Police station house left to rot when officers moved to new quarters a few blocks away in 1988.

Last ... Read more.

Less than one-fifth of Boston’s electorate trickled to the polls on Tuesday to pick a new crop of city councillors in an election that will bring a marked shift in the personnel and dynamics to the 13-member body. The new ... Read more.

John FitzGerald won a decisive, 17-point victory over Joel Richards in the race to succeed Frank Baker as the District 3 councillor on Tuesday.

A longtime city planner who currently works at the BPDA, FitzGerald, ... Read more.

A small sliver of Boston’s electorate made it to the polls on Tuesday to pick a new crop of city councillors in an election that may signal a marked shift in the personnel and dynamics of the 13-member body. The new faces ... Read more.

A Weymouth woman was arrested in Dorchester last weekend and charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Jazreanna Sheppard of South Boston outside the Park Street MBTA stop last summer.

Alyssa ... Read more.

A Dorchester man who was arrested in July 2022 for dealing fentanyl-laced fake pills pleaded guilty to conspiracy and drug dealing in a federal courtroom earlier this month. Aexis Radhames Diaz Tejeda, 45, faces at least ... Read more.

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