Kathleen Cummings was born in Dorchester some 66 years ago to Larry and Betty Cummings, who had left Ireland for Boston in ...

The Greater Boston area has seen a dramatic uptick in immigration enforcement over the past week, according to groups ...

The annual Haitian Unity Parade will kick off from Mattapan Square this Sunday (May 18) around 12:45 p.m., marching to Talbot ...

The air in the greenhouse hung damp with the smell of rich earth. Seedlings hummed with life, stretching toward the afternoon ...

Come June 7 and 8, the doors will be wide open at Humphreys Street Studios in Uphams Corner for Dorchester Open Studios, a ...

For centuries, the seal has portrayed an indigenous person on a shield. The crest above it, which is also the state’s ...

Dorchfest—the free music festival in Dorchester’s Ashmont-Adams now in its fourth year— will be held on Sat., May 31, from ...

• There are now 75 candidates who have “pulled papers” to run for mayor and/or city council this year. If history is our trusted guide, not all will make it on the ballot, but enough will to ensure a ...

On May 9, the nonprofit grocery chain, Daily Table, announced the closing of its four remaining stores, one of them near ...

A man was killed early on Sunday morning (May 11) when he was ejected from a car during a crash on Walk Hill Street in Mattapan. The report of a “motor vehicle accident” came into B-3 at 12:28 a.m.

The numbers outside Massachusetts are sobering. Firearms are the leading cause of death for children and teens, according to the CDC, and an analysis by the non-profit research group The Trace has ...

A screenshot of one of the local sellers advertising flavored tobacco vape products using the messaging app SnapChat. The BOLD Teens program in Codman Square investigated this new underground market ...