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With the primaries called, incumbents Senator Ed Markey, Congressman Stephen Lynch, and State Senator Nick Collins remained party frontrunners, while Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Minogue topped the conservative ticket. Collins’ [...]

Returning to the Council Chambers after the birth of her son, Councilor Gabriela Coletta Zapata filed a new ordinance that would provide city employees with their full salary for the [...]

A decade after legal weed came to Massachusetts, Ballot Question 8 seeks to recriminalize recreational marijuana and to limit the amount a person under 21 can possess. Voting yes on [...]

Wednesday, the City of Boston and Boston Legacy FC secured a major victory when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed that the $325 million renovation of White Stadium does not [...]

Councilor At-Large Julia Mejia moved her office hours out of City Hall and into the neighborhood on Saturday for a community clean-up of Moakley Park. With about 30 volunteers, Mejia [...]

The City Council rejected a resolution by Councilor Ed Flynn to waive residency requirements for police officers transferring from departments outside the City. Boston’s municipal code requires the city to [...]

State senators are pursuing a new “fun agenda” amendment package to loosen Massachusetts’s notorious alcohol laws. “Not everybody’s fun is the same fun,” said Senator Adam Gomez. “It could be [...]

Boston’s City Council endorsed two bills before the State Legislature that would give cities and towns the ability to use road safety cameras to address dangerous driving behaviors. The bills, [...]

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the City of Boston have partnered to build flood protection along the city’s extensive 47-mile coastline. The USACE proposes a 16-mile [...]

More than 4,000 registered nurses and 450 Home Care clinicians have returned to work this week after the largest nursing strike in Massachusetts history. Although both groups have returned to [...]