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Mark Development is proposing a new development partnership and a series of changes to its Riverside project, including converting one of the planned residential buildings to senior housing, reducing the project’s overall number of apartments, and shortening the height of its main parking garage. The changes were prese

In casual dining, there’s a sweet spot between value-based corporate chains and higher-end restaurants. Stephen DeSousa believes Tavern in the Square has found that sweet spot. He is CEO and co-founder of the 21-unit chain, which was acquired by Authentic Restaurant Brands (ARB) last year. At the time, Tavern...

BOSTON, MA — A Brockton man was arrested Tuesday morning on a warrant charging him with photographing sexual or intimate parts of a child following an incident at Boston Common Frog Pond. Mark Sullivan, 60, of Brockton, was arrested at approximately 6 a.m. Aug. 18 in the area of...

In the summer of 1899, a reporter for the Boston Herald went looking for dinner in a basement on the east side of Chinatown. There was no sign that hung above the door. What he ate that night ran that July under the headline “As Cooked in Syria.” The article was half review, half cooking lesson for readers who had neve

Boston’s infamous Storrow Drive claimed another truck Wednesday morning.

A box truck struck the Fenway overpass sign on Storrow Drive early Tuesday morning and rolled onto its side, briefly trapping the driver inside before crews freed them and rushed them to the hospital. Massachusetts State Police responded to reports of the crash, and the extent of the driver's injuries had not been shar

The MBTA suspended Orange Line service through Downtown Boston on Tuesday morning after a track problem at Chinatown Station shut down the line between North Station and Back Bay — the same stretch of tunnel the agency has scheduled for a comprehensive infrastructure overhaul beginning Thursday, making clear that the u

A storefront on Boylston Street that has cycled through a beloved half-century-old pizzeria, an abandoned marijuana dispensary plan, and a short-lived pizzeria revival is getting a new tenant: Achilito's Taqueria, the fast-casual Mexican chain, is set to open its newest Boston-area location at 1114 Boylston Street, rig

Most people spend their weekends fighting traffic to get to a beach that’s already packed with strangers, and here you are about to discover that one of the best coastlines in Massachusetts is sitting right in Boston Harbor, completely overlooked. Spectacle Island is that place, and it’s been quietly...

BOSTON (AP) — Lindsay Clancy was “begging for help” in the months leading up to killing her three children and attempting to end her own life, Clancy’s former mother-in-law testified for the defense Tuesday in the fourth week of her murder trial. ___ EDITOR’S NOTE: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or s