Citing economic uncertainty and anticipated federal cuts, Mayor Wu advised city councillors this week that they should expect a cautious FY26 budget proposal from her administration, which is expected to be submitted for...
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A series of shots-fired incidents have been recorded by Boston Police over the past week, including one on Thursday night in which a person was wounded by gunfire on Woodrow Avenue in Dorchester. In two other reported ... Read more.
Josh Kraft officially opened the headquarters of his mayoral campaign last Saturday (March 22) by welcoming more than 200 community members, campaign volunteers, and supporters to 36 Warren Street in Roxbury’s Nubian ... Read more.
Warning of “economic hardship” and a possible “constitutional crisis,” state Attorney General Andrea Campbell delivered a message last Thursday (March 20) to a man her office has already sued more than half a dozen times ... Read more.
Over the years, the Chez Vous Roller Rink, when not fulfilling its roller skating mission, has been host to numerous big name performers in the entertainment industry.
Add the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to ... Read more.
Over the last year I’ve been involved in re-designing a schoolyard in my West of Washington neighborhood in a space long-neglected and without a drop of investment since the early 1990s.
The first step in the ... Read more.
So what was I doing in the offices of the Immigrant Families Services Institute (IFSI) in Mattapan Square at 8 o’clock on a recent Saturday morning? Well, the day before IFSI had organized the Charting the Path Forward ... Read more.
A group of 15 Roxbury Community College (RCC) students got their competitive juices flowing at RCC’s first annual “Hackathon” last month. The three-person “Renaissance Coders” were named the winner, but all five teams ... Read more.
YouthBuild Boston, Inc., a leader in youth and workforce development, has welcomed Peter Hunt as the organization’s new executive director. He took the helm on March 17.
“We are excited to welcome Peter to the team ... Read more.
The BASE, a nonprofit that uses sports to engage youth and provide them with educational and career opportunities, hosted its annual Women’s Leadership Breakfast on March 19. The gathering included a diverse group of ... Read more.
Melvin Caballero was once a boy picking coffee fields with his 10 siblings in Honduras while dreaming of an opportunity to pursue his passion to become an educator. Against the odds, he hitchhiked to America alone, found ... Read more.
A $1.7 million improvement plan aimed at improving pathways, trees, entrances and other infrastructure inside Dorchester Park will begin early next month, according to officials from the city’s Parks Department.
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Federal immigration and law enforcement officials conducted a six-day “enhanced targeted enforcement operation focusing on trans-national organized crime, gangs, and egregious illegal alien offenders” in Massachusetts ... Read more.
A federal judge has sentenced a South Carolina man to two years in federal prison for buying guns at local shops that he then handed off to a friend from Boston who sold them here - including one used a couple of weeks ... Read more.
A Suffolk Superior Court judge is expected to rule on a case involving the renovation and re-use of White Stadium in the coming days after a three-day trial concluded last Thursday afternoon.
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Shakespeare warned to “beware the Ides of March,” but for those playing and coaching in the girls’ high school basketball world, March is a time to beware of the Cathedral Panthers, who, anchored by a heavy roster of ... Read more.
Officials working with a state-led commission charged with planning future improvements to Morrissey Boulevard met with members of the public last Thursday (March 20) to get feedback on the panel’s ... Read more.
When National Women's Soccer League’s Boston club managers announced that they would be undergoing a name change last week, fans enjoying beers and BBQ at the ... Read more.
Warning of "economic hardship" and a possible "constitutional crisis," Attorney General Andrea Campbell delivered a message Thursday for President Donald Trump, who her office has already sued more than half a dozen times ... Read more.
Mayor Michelle Wu's 2025 State of the City address, as prepared, is published here in full.
Good evening, Boston! Thank you to our hosts at the MGM Music Hall, and to all our interpreters tonight. Governor ... Read more.
Roxbury 8th grader Sapna Malhotra, who attends the John Eliot K-8 in the North End, took home top honors in in the 17th annual citywide spelling bee held on March 15 in Rabb Hall at the Copley Library. She won by ... Read more.
Dorchester native Cherrelle Norris has joined the staff at Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester as chief communications and marketing officer.
She comes to BGCD from a similar role at Harvard University Health ... Read more.
Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell will deliver the keynote address at UMass Boston’s 57th commencement ceremony on May 29, the school announced last week. Campbell, a Roxbury native, is the first Black woman to hold a ... Read more.
Dorchester is losing another pharmacy and retail store next month. In an email sent out last week, Walgreens informed customers that its store at 757 Gallivan Blvd. will shut down on April 28.
The shutdown is part ... Read more.
Massachusetts voters already indicated their support for empowering the state auditor to probe the Legislature at the ballot box last fall, and a new poll found they now overwhelmingly want Attorney General Andrea ... Read more.
A group of student-athletes who support the Wu administration’s push to renovate White Stadium spoke out last Thursday (March 13) during an online forum organized by pro-stadium residents in Dorchester, Roxbury, and ... Read more.
