In the Democratic primary for the First Suffolk state Senate seat, the outcome remains too close too call at 9:45 p.m. on a relatively low-tunrout election night as challenger Latoya Gayle is giving i...

In the Democratic primary for the First Suffolk state Senate seat, the outcome remains too close too call at 9:45 p.m. on a relatively low-tunrout election night as challenger Latoya Gayle is giving i...

A forum exploring the history of redlining and blockbusting in Dorchester and Mattapan — and the neighborhood organizing that pushed back against those practices — will be held on Wed., Sept. 9, from ...

If Boston is a “city of neighborhoods,” their boundaries are neither fixed nor uncontested, let alone waterproof. Or so it appears in Andy Woodruff’s book, “Boston in 50 Maps.”

Mayor Michelle Wu's FY27 budget proposal is under scrutiny from city councillors and advocates who are posing tough questions about priorities and making pleas for more funding.

The work of Jane Jacobs and the consequences of “The New Boston” came together March 8 in Fields Corner, in a conversation at JustBook-Ish between authors Richard Keeley and Karilyn Crockett.

Tracking the long-and-winding road towards making major improvements to the Blue Hill Avenue corridor.

The long-delayed second phase of the Dot Block development – an all-affordable 84-unit apartment building that will rise five stories above Hancock Street– has received key state subsidies that should...

It's been a particularly tough week on the Red Line. T officials say old cars and freezing temps are to blame.

Boston City Council president Liz Breadon has made her picks for committee chairs, which the body is expected to approve at their Jan. 28 meeting.

As more people in the Boston area feel squeezed by the housing market, they’re facing a new hurdle: a drop in the economic growth that normally spurs new construction.

Mayor Michelle Wu’s making a new push to reduce sticker shock for residential property owners when the next tax bills come out in January.

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The polls are now open in Boston's municipal election. Voters can pick up to four candidates out of a field of eight in the at-large city council race.

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New studies show a Greater Boston population becoming more racially diverse, but also more disconnected by income, and by shifting educational choices following the Covid-19 pandemic. As multiple figu...

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Unofficial tally gives mayor 72 percent as challenger lags badly Mayor Michelle Wu surged to a resounding victory on Tuesday over Josh Kraft with a 49-point margin in a preliminary election turnout th...

“There is just no way to subsidize housing development processes enough” to be affordable to the lowest income residents, said Matt Noyes of CHAPA, “without affordable rental assistance."

Three months after Donald Trump began his second term as president, change was being felt at the Talbot-Bernard senior housing development in Dorchester. It was just one more spot in a flooded zone of...