The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by Brian and Jason Chavez to add a third floor to what is now a two-family house at 567 Adams St., between Lydon Way and Mallett Street in Dorchester ...

A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit by a man who claims he was forced to spend more than a month in "extreme" isolation because of Boston's requirement between January and February, 2022 that ...

The Ig Nobel Awards, presented at Harvard or MIT since the early 1990s, is moving its award ceremonies this year to Zurich, and has no plans to return to the US, because it's no longer safe for ...

Boston Police report officers responding to a report of fireworks on Baird Street arrested a Mattapan man on gun charges for the unregistered "ghost" gun loaded with 17 rounds they say he brought to ...

The Fort Point Boston blog posts a copy of the notice that Gillette sent to Fort Point residents today: Read more.

It's the thought that counts? Following in the steps of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Gov. Healey today dropped a note to regime Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent demanding that Massachusetts households ...

Christy Rae Jeffson snapped the scene on Lincoln Street near Dorchester Avenue in Fields Corner this morning. See larger.

Foxborough town officials are not going to let FIFA or the Krafts or anybody paint them as the bad guys in the World Cup security brouhaha: Read more.

Somerville Steve watched the sunset over the old and new Hancock buildings in the Back Bay this evening. Adam Castiglioni had a good view from along Atlantic Avenue and the Greenway: Read more.

A concerned resident filed a 311 report this morning about a poor American woodcock near the post office on Clarendon Street: ...

Quincy's now ex-director of elder affairs pleaded guilty today to a series of charges related to the way he used city funds to pay for 153 pounds of bourbon steak tips, a 2005 Prius he gave to a woman ...

An auctioneer has scheduled a March 17 sale of more than five acres of land along Dorchester Avenue that South Boston developer Andrew Collins had acquired in the hopes of spawning a large development ...