Steve Poftak, a onetime CEO and general manager of the MBTA from January 2019 to January 2023, has been selected as the next ...

A 21-year-old man was found with life-threatening gunshot injuries early Sunday morning near the Milton-Dorchester line in Lower Mills. Milton Police report that the victim was found on Wharf Street ...

The 4th annual Night Market/Cho Dem will take place this Saturday (July 12) from 4 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in Fields Corner as food treats, music, and socializing in traditional Vietnamese-style street ...

The man who fatally shot a Codman Square gas station attendant during an armed robbery on Oct. 6, 2018, received a life sentence without parole on June 30 in a Boston courtroom on June 30.

'Ideas in Action,' the city of Boston’s “participatory budgeting” initiative, is now open for Boston residents to make their own proposals on how to spend $2.2 million of the city budget. Now through ...

In early June, I made a snap decision, one that involved passports, a flight, and a quiet promise to myself: My son and I were going to fly to Dublin to mark the end of his middle school years and the ...

Dorchester native Paulette Johnson DiSpagna graduated on May 17 from Lesley University with a doctorate in Counseling & Psychology, Transformative Leadership, Education, and Applied Research. She was ...

Nearly two centuries ago, Boston led the way in Black public school education. The same ideals that created the Commonwealth’s Constitution, which led to the abolition of slaves and made Boston a key ...

When it comes to the worst Supreme Court decision in history, there is plenty of competition. Last Friday (June 27, 2025) Trump v. CASA joined the race. In 2004, President George W. Bush nominated ...

The Boston Licensing Board awarded more liquor licenses last Thursday (June 26), including seven in Dorchester, from Grove Hall to Neponset. The permits came from a batch of 195 meant for 13 Zip codes ...

Usually, you have to pick between the city and the country, but a month from now, on Sun., Aug. 3, Myesha Slaughter will be bringing the “wild west” to Dorchester with the third annual Ice Cream ...

More than 100 people gathered on Monday night to celebrate the life of the late David Lopes, a storied Wellington Hill resident who passed away after an illness in 2023. The specific occasion was the ...