Boston MA

BOSTON — The Boston Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in locating 38-year-old João Tavares of Dorchester. Tavares was last seen Wednesday, July 16, at 2 p.m. in the area of Figurehead Lane in Quincy. He is described as a Black non-Hispanic male, about 5 feet...

More than half a dozen children from a French choir group were transported to the hospital on Tuesday night after a report of an odor at a church they were performing at.

An ambulance crash is under investigation in Boston.

The Brockton Police Department is actively continuing their search for Marie Louissaint, a 70-year-old resident of Brockton who has been missing since July 6. Last seen near her home at Caffrey Towers on Crescent Street, concern is growing for her safety. Police have released surveillance images from July 4 in hopes...

The civil war at Market Basket headquarters in Tewksbury escalated Tuesday after the public learned that two longtime board members had been fired. Tom Gordon and Joe Schmidt, both strong allies of Arthur T. Demoulas, were dismissed from the Market Basket Board of Directors. How could this affect our Fall River and...

According to city data, of the 5,700 reports of sidewalk defects made throughout 2024, more than two-thirds remained open as of June.

BOSTON — A 44-year-old Mattapan man was arrested Monday night after officers responded to gunshots detected by the city’s ShotSpotter system in Roxbury. Officers assigned to District B-2 responded to the area of Washington Park at 150 Martin Luther King Boulevard at about 9:20 p.m. July 21 for a report of shots fired.

The workers, whose Aramark contracts expired in December 2024, include barbacks, beer sellers, cashiers, catering servers, cooks, souvenir vendors, utility workers, and warehouse runners, among other roles. The workers are asking for better wages, scheduling, and automation protection.

See which states and cities sent the most U-Haul trucks to Boston in the first half of 2025. With September 1 just around the corner, many Bostonians are gearing up for an epic day of move-in madness. Others, from near and far, have already settled into their new digs. Where...

BOSTON – A Massachusetts man was sentenced in federal court in Boston for his role in a large-scale drug trafficking organization in Massachusetts. In November 2023, millions of doses of fentanyl and methamphetamine laced pills and powder with street value estimated to be over $7 million, were seized from a stash...