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The Dot Block and the South Bay Town Center projects each received the approval of the Boston Redevelopment Authority Board at its monthly meeting last night. The projects account for $350 million invested in over 1.4 ... Read more.

The Boston airwaves will soon add a station, one with content tailored towards community news and local performers, Mayor Walsh's office announced Thursday. Broadcasting on 102.9 FM under the call signal WBCA, the new ... Read more.

The filming of a rap video on a Dorchester cul-de-sac Wednesday evening ended with six people under arrest and the confiscation of four loaded guns, police and prosecutors say.

One man had bail set at $100,000, two ... Read more.

The MBTA has chosen a development team to build a mixed-use project on what is now an underused parking lot next to Mattapan Station. The decision sets in motion an important new housing start in one of the few Boston ... Read more.

The thousands who trekked for miles in intermittent showers on Sunday were bonded by loss and united in their desire to prevent any more of it. At the 20th Mother’s Day Walk for Peace, purple-clad masses marched from ... Read more.

Construction has begun on the mixed-use Whittier Lyndhurst Washington Homes redevelopment in Codman Square. The multi-site project will represent a $20.1 million investment and create 44 units of affordable rental housing ... Read more.

Boston, and Dorchester along with it, is finally seeing soaring investment and growth, Mayor Martin Walsh told members of the business community and other elected officials at the mayor’s annual Dorchester Board of Trade ... Read more.

There has been plenty of negative attention heaped on digital delivery companies that have skipped over Dorchester, Mattapan and Roxbury. After media scrutiny— and a high-profile push from Mayor Martin Walsh — Amazon says ... Read more.

Two major Dorchester developments, DOT Block in Glover’s Corner and the South Bay Town Center expansion, are on the agenda at the Boston Redevelopment Authority/EDIC Board monthly meeting tonight (May 12).

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Questions from five Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justices came fast and furious last Thursday before an overflowing courtroom as appellate attorney Rosemary Scapicchio and Suffolk County Assistant District ... Read more.

City councillors on Wednesday voted in favor of a property tax surcharge for community preservation purposes, sending the measure to Mayor Martin Walsh for almost certain approval and on to the ballot in November.

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Is there a place in front of your home or business that looks like a good location to plant a tree? The Boston Parks and Recreation Department has 150 surplus trees and wants to plant them before their spring planting ... Read more.

Families of Boston Public School students will be briefed by school officials at two meetings early this week after water fountains being tested for lead exposure were mistakenly left operational, officials said.

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Updated May 6, 12 p.m. -- With construction projects crisscrossing its campus, UMass Boston officials last Wednesday hosted the university’s annual community forum to update the public on several campus ... Read more.

Home.stead bakery and cafe was officially welcomed to the neighborhood Friday morning. Two months after the bakery first opened ... Read more.

The 20th annual Mother's Walk for Peace, launched as a fundraiser to support the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute in Fields Corner, will expand its scope this year and lead thousands of marchers from Dorchester to Boston ... Read more.

Almost 30 years ago, the newly formed Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative took a bold step to make housing affordable in the devastated strip between Uphams Corner and Dudley Square. Last Wednesday, more than 100 people ... Read more.

Ashmont Hill’s historic homes will be on display on Sunday, June 12, featured in the Dorchester Historical Society’s resurrection of the classic house tours dating back to the 1970s. Homeowners will stand at the ready to ... Read more.

Making use of the $525,000 bike-sharing grant awarded to Boston in April by the Barr Foundation, Hubway will install 10 new stations in Roxbury and Dorchester, Mayor Martin Walsh announced last week.

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