A Virginia-based anti-marijuana nonprofit has Massachusetts’s cannabis dispensaries in its crosshairs and advocates of legal weed in the Bay State are girding for battle over Question 8 on the ballot ...

Tanglewood Village – a development of sixteen condo units situated in a campus of three buildings – is alive and growing in Dorchester’s Lower Mills neighborhood.

Boston’s Little Saigon hosted a festival at Town Field in Fields Corner on Oct. 3 to celebrate the Vietnamese Mid-Autumn holiday.

Elsie Dias says that her work at the Cape Verdean Association of Boston on Bowdoin Street helped land her “right where I’m supposed to be,”and that is as the new Cape Verdean cultural advisor for Mayo...

Stefano Quaresima has a simple goal for his customers in the cafe that he’s opening at the heart of Fields Corner: “I want them to feel like this is a small corner of Italy and France.”

Six electric “smart pianos” have been installed across four Boston Public Library (BPL) locations, including two in Grove Hall and one in Lower Mills. They are part of the Keys of Inspiration program ...

A Native-owned company, in collaboration with Wampanoag tribes, has completed the design of what could be the first permanent Indigenous-created monument in Boston.

The City of Boston intends to launch a new, private bus service to connect neighborhoods in Mattapan and Roxbury with a free “last mile” shuttle service that would help commuters connect more easily t...

The 44th annual Boston Firefighters Memorial 10K Road Race will return to Dorchester on Sunday, Oct. 11, with a 9 a.m. start at Florian Hall on Hallet Street.

A Native-owned company, in collaboration with Wampanoag tribes, has completed the design of what could be the first permanent Indigenous-created monument in Boston.

The discussion over rebuilding Blue Hill Avenue was renewed over the last month through a series of four public meetings that offered a thorough overview of the most recent plans for the $163 million ...

The polls were still open on Sept. 1, the last day of this year’s primary election, when state Sen. Nick Collins went on social media to alert potentially anxious voters. “It has come to my attention,...

Boston Municipal Research Bureau is calling attention to the challenges facing the nearly 14,554 BPS students who attend the district’s 31 open enrollment high schools.

Mayor Michelle Wu joined housing officials and advocates on Wednesday (Oct. 7) to dedicate a refurbished hotel-turned-housing complex at 900 Morrissey Blvd. The event marked the completion of a four-y...

Eva Longoria is in the neighborhood shooting a film adaptation of Francisco X. Strok’s acclaimed young adult novel “Marcelo in the Real World.”

Two Dorchester real estate professionals have joined forces to launch a new development company focused on their own neighborhood — and their first project, a 12-unit, three-building complex on Norwel...

The development team behind the long-delayed Dorchester Bay City (DBC) project are pursuing a roughly $400 million federal loan that they hope will allow them to launch a first phase of more than 700 ...

The city’s Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA) on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve a 42-unit extended stay hotel proposed for the former Little House property at 275 E. Cottage St. The vote came only hou...

Dawn Morris will swap her baking mitts for boxing gloves when she leaves the kitchen at DJ’s Polish Market to compete in Haymakers for Hope’s Belles of the Brawl, a charity boxing event at MGM Music H...

Student performers will take the stage this Saturday (Oct. 10) at the Strand Theatre for the 32nd annual “”Twist & Shout” fundraiser. Hosted by OrigiNation Cultural Arts Center, a youth dance nonprofi...

A newly-built ramp on Adams Street that serves as a new access-point for the Milton stop on the Mattapan hi-speed trolley line was dedicated by MBTA and local officials on Wed., Sept. 30.

A Boston federal judge yesterday ordered the regime to restore a Maine resident's work permit - and his right to stay here  - several months after she had ordered him freed from illegal detention, and...

The City of Boston and the MBTA concluded the last of four meetings in the Holland Tech High School auditorium.

The Fields Corner Post Office will close effective Mon., Oct. 26, according to a notice issued by USPS on Wednesday.

After Boston police officials repeatedly acquired and deployed surveillance technology tools without first obtaining permission from the City Council in accordance with a 2021 ordinance, councillors a...

Prime Minister Francisco Carvalho of Cabo Verde joined Boston Public Schools (BPS) officials and Cape Verdean leaders on Monday as they hailed the new Kriolu dual language program at Dorchester’s Lill...

In a sit-down interview with The Reporter, the Congressman discusses "terrifying" prospects of unchecked AI proliferation and his recent primary victory.

Boston residents who use the curbside food waste pickup program learned this week that the program will move from a weekly to a bi-weekly schedule starting on Oct. 5., meaning that those who participa...

The Boston Licensing Board on Thursday approved plans by Frank Delaney and Teresa Murphy to replace the short-lived Scobie's, 782 Adams St. in Dorchester, with the Session House, which will feature Ir...

The United States Postal Service (USPS) is looking at all options in case their lease is not renewed for the retail postal branch in Fields Corner at the O’Hearn Building, 218 Adams St.

On Wednesday afternoon, a federal judge in Washington was scheduled to hear arguments from three major media companies seeking to undo President Trump’s foolish move to bar their journalists from the ...

Darrin Howell says he is not the edgy young man he was at 21. To that point, the 44-year-old Dorchester man is looking to convince a state board, Gov. Maura Healey and the Governor’s Council that what...

In July, the BPDA Board approved Cornerstone Realty’s six-story mixed-use development, featuring hotel suites, a rooftop terrace café, and ground-floor restaurant space, demolishing the Little House, ...

“Is it really that bad in Ukraine?” That is a question I am asked often. Having completed seven humanitarian trips to Ukraine since 2022—most recently in 2026—the short answer is yes: the situation is...

Mayor Michelle Wu visited UMass Boston’s Dorchester campus on Monday to launch a partnership between the school’s Urban Public Health Department and the city’s Public Health Commission (BPHC) that is ...

The Boston Planning Department will host a virtual public meeting on Monday, Oct. 19 to review the redevelopment plan for the former Carney Hospital campus.

Dorchester native Arlene Baldwin hosted an event last Saturday (Sept. 19) at City Hall where Black women talked about their experiences with alopecia, hair loss, and wigs.