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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Other car-free events will be staged on Blue Hill Ave. in Roxbury (July 12), Hyde Park Ave. and River Street in Hyde Park ...

Unlike Kennealy— a more moderate Republican who ran Baker’s housing office and says he “blanked” the presidential ballot last ...