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Set to begin development in Boston’s historic Chinatown, an affordable housing complex will perch atop a branch of the Boston Public Library system. It’s been 60 years since Chinatown had a BPL branch, and activists see it as the full-circle closure of a saga that began when it lost that branch all those years ago.

The Wild West is coming to Boston, as the city is hosting its first rodeo Saturday in almost 100 years.

Sean Duffy condemns Chicago and Boston transit systems' failure to protect riders after violent incidents including assaults on workers and passengers.

SPRINGFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) - The MSPCA has rescued over two dozen specialty breed dogs from commercial breeding facilities across the United States. The 27 dogs, ranging in age from four months though seven years old, include dachshunds, beagles, husky mixes, and more. They are often abused in these breeding...

A man and a woman were stabbed on Friday afternoon in the South End.

The chief of a Massachusetts police department that’s been gripped by allegations of sexual misconduct and murder told “Dateline” that she felt “obligated” to share details unearthed by her investigators in the harrowing case of Sandra Birchmore, who authorities say endured years of abuse in a police youth program...

SOMERVILLE, MASS. (WHDH) - Somerville police are investigating after a girl says she was approached by an unknown man who touched her arm and tried to kiss her, officials said. The girl said the incident occurred near North Street and Powder House Boulevard and involved a man who is described...

This article is syndicated by the MassWire news service of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. If you want to see more reporting like this, make a contribution at givetobinj.org. When the Massachusetts Department of Correction denied James Ware’s petition for medical parole in May, the commissioner who...

A powerful new monument now stands along Boston’s Freedom Trail, honoring the lives of more than 200 enslaved people once held by… The post Boston’s King’s Chapel Unveils Huge Statue of Black Woman to Honor Enslaved People Once Held by Congregation Members appeared first on Shine My Crown .

The man, who has not been identified, died after a “brief struggle” with law enforcement. A man died last week after a brief struggle with police who had been called to a Mattapan mental health facility at the request of staff. On Sept. 11, the man, who has...