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Save the Harbor/Save the Bay released their annual Beach Water Quality Report Card on the Metropolitan Region’s public beaches. The report card is based on water quality data collected during the [...]

From BPD News: At about 4:42 PM on Sunday, July 19, 2020, officers assigned to District B-3 (Mattapan) responded to a radio call for a person shot in the area [...]

Last week, the Massachusetts Senate voted to pass a new police reform bill with a 30-7 approval. The bill would ban police from using chokeholds, create an independent oversight board, and certify [...]

Evidently, someone has an ax to grind with the Virgin Mary. A statue of the Virgin Mary had a trash can put over it in front of the St. Teresa [...]

Please see below for updates from Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s press briefing on Tuesday, July 21, 2020. Case numbers:  As of today in Massachusetts: 114,033 cases and 8,450 deaths. These [...]

Pine Street Inn will lease the old Best Western Plus, located at 891 Massachusetts Ave, and turn it into a temporary homeless shelter. According to WBUR, its part of a [...]

Raise your glass Gov. Charlie Baker signed legislation allowing restaurants to temporarily sell mixed drinks to go into law late Monday afternoon. The law makes Massachusetts the latest state to [...]

From BPD News: At about 4:42 PM on Sunday, July 19, 2020, officers assigned to District B-3 (Mattapan) responded to a radio call for a person shot in the area [...]

BFD responded to a 2-alarm fire at 11 Atherstone Street in Dorchester on Sunday evening. Three adults and 1 minor have been displaced from three-story single family home. BFD- FIU [...]

Money laundering, fraud, email hacking, it’s all included in this case. A Rhode Island man pleaded guilty in Boston federal court to fraud schemes connected to business email compromise.  One [...]