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You can read more about UN-MONUMENT here. As Siu Tip Lam boarded her school bus, a rock flew from the growing crowd surrounding Lam and her fellow elementary school students. The year was 1975 and these hostile scenes were playing out across the city in response to Boston Public Schools’ (BPS) desegregation efforts.

The fare gates have been in use at North Station since 2022. Three years after North Station, South Station is set to get fare gates in December. Commuter rail riders at South Station will need a ticket to get in and out of the station starting next month, although no specific start date has been set, according to...

Boston Public School students, parents, and teachers are voicing their opposition to a new proposal to close three more schools and reconfigure three others.

BOSTON, MA — A 17-year-old male was arrested following a shooting incident and police chase in Dorchester on Wednesday. Officers assigned to District B-3 responded to the area of 91 Southern Avenue at about 11:20 a.m. for a shot spotter activation. Upon arrival, officers located ballistic evidence and observed...

BOSTON (WHDH) - Crews responded after a triple-decker home in Roslindale caught fire Thursday, according to fire officials. Boston Fire Chief Paul Burke told 7NEWS the blaze at the home on Washington Street started on a back porch, raced up the back of the building, and onto the roof. Cellphone video taken by a...

A federal grand jury has indicted three Massachusetts men in connection with the seizure of approximately 99 kilograms of cocaine across Massachusetts, New York and Puerto Rico.

Despite a common reputation for its filth, forged from rock songs and warnings imparted for decades, multiple organizations have made efforts to make the Charles River swimmable, but that could all be coming to an end soon. A recent proposal by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) would allow an...

A former Boston City Hall staffer who claims she was wrongfully terminated is urging a court to unseal police body camera footage from her arrest, saying it will prove she did not strike a police officer last spring. Marwa Khudaynazar made the request in a motion filed Wednesday as part...

BOSTON (WHDH) - The Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission (POST) said Thursday it will not investigate Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox because he is a “civilian executive,” not a sworn law enforcement officer. Defense Attorney Alan Jackson, who represented Karen Read during her murder...

A live mouse inside Legal Sea Foods led to a failed health inspection at the Copley Place location this month. “A live mouse was observed in the dining room near the bar,” the Nov. 18 report stated. During the same visit, health inspectors found evidence of mouse droppings near...