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Nine of the twelve mayoral candidates have weighed in on a host of topics – from gun violence to the names of their role models – that were included in a questionnaire they received from the Dorchester Reporter. They ... Read more.

Mayor Thomas Menino created Boston Main Streets, a program that offers financial and technical assistance to local businesses, in 1995, and it has grown in size and scope since then. The city funnels federal grant funding ... Read more.

East Boston is in the pole position when it comes to reaping jobs and vendor contracts from a proposed resort casino at Suffolk Downs. But the partners behind the project are starting to reach out to Boston’s other ... Read more.

It all started with a conversation between Adams Village resident Clifford Odle and Barbara Lewis, who heads the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture at UMass. They agreed that a retrospective ... Read more.

Lambert’s Fitness Center (LFC) for Women, owned by April Visco, has a new gym manager effective Mon., August 16.

Visco said that, with the imminent addition of several large gyms to the area, she wants LFC to be ... Read more.

Boston is moving forward with the newly amended Rental Housing Registration and Inspection program, which requires all private rental units to be registered with the City and inspection of all non-exempt rental units to ... Read more.

Staples National School Supply Drive Partnership - This Summer, Boys and Girls Clubs of America and Staples are teaming up with Teen actor, Jake T. Austin, for the 6th Annual Staples for Students national ... Read more.

Boston and State Police are investigating an attack early Sunday that left a man lying unconscious around 4:15 a.m. on Sunday outside the China Sky/Windy City building at 516 Gallivan Blvd.

The Boston ... Read more.

There are 34 days left until the Sept. 24 preliminary election and 76 days until the Nov. 5 final election.

City Councillor At-Large John Connolly highlighted his 2011 discovery of expired frozen food in Boston ... Read more.

Firefighters on roof

The Boston Fire Department reports a two-alarm fire that started due to poorly maintained ducts did an estimated $400,000 in damage to a block of stores at 772 Blue Hill Ave.

The department says the fire, reported ... Read more.

City Councillor Rob Consalvo is again challenging his rivals to sign onto his pledge to limit the influence of independent expenditure groups in the race to succeed Mayor Thomas Menino. This time, he’s doing it on the ... Read more.

City Councillor Michael Ross on Sunday became the latest mayoral candidate to take aim at state Rep. Marty Walsh, a fellow mayoral hopeful. Standing outside the State House, Ross hit Walsh for voting for a transportation ... Read more.

A Boston city councilor and three mayors are pushing to overturn the state's "antiquated" liquor license law by lifting caps and wrestling control away from the state to give it to local communities.

At Large ... Read more.

MBTA police are asking for the public's help in identifying two young men —shown in the video above— ... Read more.

A longtime Mattapan Square supermarket is now under new ownership and management. The former Farmers Warehouse Market on Cummins Highway has been purchased by America’s Food Basket, a chain with locations in both Boston ... Read more.

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