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One firefighter suffered a minor injury at a two-alarm Friday-morning fire in a three decker at 7 Rowell St., the Boston Fire Department reports.

Firefighters responded at 7:55 a.m. to find a basement fire ... Read more.

109 Fuller St. fire

The Boston Fire Department reports a fire around 3 p.m. on Thursday at 109 Fuller St., off Washington St., went to two alarms and did an estimated $500,000 in damage.

Five adults and ten children were displaced, ... Read more.

Continuing efforts to shape the city’s first major planning study in 50 years, the Imagine Boston 2030 team ... Read more.

The city’s Inspectional Services Department (ISD) is considering a criminal complaint against the owner of a Milton Avenue three-decker that has been ... Read more.

Everything was on time as the train carrying a few dozen city and state officials, residents of neighborhoods along the line, and daily riders rumbled along on a round trip on the Fairmount Commuter Rail Line last ... Read more.

Thoughts of summer will be in order on Saturday when the Dorchester Running Club’s second annual “Halfway to Dot Day 5k” road race kicks off at 9 a.m. at the Hallet Street entrance to Pope John Paul II Park.

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A teacher and a student from Tech Boston Academy were recognized for their achievements during a ceremony at the Google offices in Cambridge last week. Christian Miranda, a teaching fellow at the school, was presented ... Read more.

The City of Boston’s 2015 plan to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious crashes by 2030 requires more funding and a more focused effort to redesign “hot spots,” or areas where there have been a high number of crashes, ... Read more.

The pursuit of writing in its many aspects is alive and very well at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Dorchester’s Grove Hall neighborhood where the non-profit 826 Boston’s writing and tutoring program has set up shop ... Read more.

When you’re the music director for “A Christmas Celtic Sojourn,” says Seamus Egan, Christmas comes early. “Actually,” he quips, “Christmas tends to last all year.”

Egan is finishing up his first decade overseeing ... Read more.

Members of the Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association planning committee like the design but worry about the density of a 21-unit building proposal that would replace the Scally & Trayers Funeral Home on Pleasant ... Read more.

The long awaited opening of UMass Boston’s University Hall Theatre took place Thursday, as Bat Boy: The Musical began a seven-performance run. The cult-classic, rock and roll fueled horror-inspired comic journey is ripped ... Read more.

In the fall of 2001, BC High introduced the McElroy Scholars Program in an effort to provide at-risk students with models of success and the extra tools needed to excel academically, which, it was hoped, would in turn ... Read more.

Members of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) are ramping up their campaign to secure free MBTA bus passes for thousands of Boston Public School students who now walk to school.

Sparked by fears ... Read more.

It was breezy on the morning of Dec. 3 as a crowd led by city officials brandishing megaphones set off on an excursion eastward down Columbia Road from Franklin Park to Moakley Park in South Boston. 

The tour’s aim ... Read more.

Architect's rendering

The Zoning Board of Appeals on Tuesday approved a six-story, 40-unit condo building at 1258-1272 Massachusetts Ave., in what is now a car lot next to the new Dorchester Brewing Co.

Developer Douglas ... Read more.

After fire on Ellington Street in Dorchester

Boston firefighters responded around 11:20 p.m. on Tuesday for what turned into a two-alarm fire in a three decker at 107 Ellington St. that caused an estimated $250,000 in damage, the Boston Fire Department reports. ... Read more.

Boston Police have teamed up with kids and teens from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester to ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports a man in a car was shot around 12:10 a.m. on Saturday at Tileston and Rosemont streets. He managed to drive away, but crashed into a house a few blocks away at River and Alpine streets ... Read more.

University of Massachusetts-Boston faculty members and union representatives on Wednesday urged a UMass Board of Trustees committee to help the Boston campus manage a budget deficit they said is threatening the campus's ... Read more.

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