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Transit Police report they are looking for a guy who punched a bus driver standing in the busway at Sullivan Square around 1:30 p.m. on July 1. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports the Codman Square Health Center is considering putting in a machine that would dispense free doses of Narcan - which can help revive somebody in an opioid overdose.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved a proposal to replace a repair garage with a five-story, 36-unit apartment building at 3458 Washington St., at Kenton Road in Jamaica Plain. Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters rescued 500 Blue Line riders from an outbound train that up and died in the tunnel between Aquarium and Maverick this afternoon. Read more.
Update: No, Paine didn't write his famous pamphlet here. He wrote it in Philadelphia. They have a historic marker and everything. Jeez.The city posted this photo of Public Works workers hard at work ...
It's good, actually, when people want to replace dilapidated vacant buildings with new housing and other amenities. Yearning for empty storefronts and crumbling facades (with permanent sidewalk ...
In another one of its we-don't-need-to-tell-you-why decisions, the Supreme Court ruled today that while a lower court considers lawsuits against the regime by Somerville and other cities, states and ...
Timmy spotted a mother heron and a chick, apparently determined to go its own way, under a water reflection of The Gas Tank along the new Neponset Greenway extension in Dorchester. See larger.
Transit Police report arresting two Boston men they described as "knuckleheads" who might have gotten away with tossing rubbish along commuter-rail tracks in Somerville if only their U-Haul hadn't ...
Passengers of the Green and Orange Line's "super station" at North Station have an underground walkway that exits immediately adjacent to the TD North Garden and the North Station commuter rail ...
The MBTA is reporting Red Line delays of up to 20 minutes due to signal problems at Braintree.
Mary Ellen spotted this frog, 90% of it underwater, in a vernal pool at Brook Farm in West Roxbury.