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Annual Beaches Water Quality Report Card – Dorchester Edition
Save the Harbor/Save the Bay released its annual Metropolitan Beaches Water Quality Report Card this week, just in time for this year’s Fourth of July [...]
BPD Community Alert: Do You Recognize These Individuals Involved in Recent Aggravated Assault in Dorchester
BPD Community Alert: Detectives assigned to District B-3 (Mattapan) are seeking the public’s help to identify the individuals in the images below in connection to [...]
Update: Woman who enrolled in multiple high schools in BPS is formally charged with fraud.
Update: An arrest warrant for Shelby Hewitt, of Canton, was filed in West Roxbury District Court on Tuesday. BPD has been investigating Hewitt, who allegedly [...]
BPD Community Alert: BPD Needs Public’s Help to Identify Individual Following Non-Fatal Stabbing in Dorchester
From BPD News BPD Community Alert: Detectives assigned to District B-2 (Roxbury) are seeking the public’s help to identify the individual in the images below [...]
Mayor Wu joins EPA, Elected Officials to Announce Lower Neponset River as a Superfund Site
Federal funds will support the remediation of a historically neglected and polluted natural space BOSTON - Monday, March 14, 2022- [...]
Suspect in Custody After Search Warrant Execution Leads to the Recovery of Drugs and Cash in Dorchester
From BPD News: At about 11:23 AM on Thursday March 10, 2022, members of the Drug Control Unit Assigned to [...]
Group of kids arrested at JFK for robbery at Andrew Station
From Transit Police News: On March 10, 2022 at approximately 8PM Transit Police officers patrolling the Red Line in the [...]
UPDATE Missing Person Safely Located – Jahqueen Greene, 18, of Dorchester
UPDATE: Jahqueen Green has been safely located. BPD Missing Person Alert: Jahqueen Greene, 18, of Dorchester, was last seen on [...]
City of Boston’s Covid-19 State of Emergency Declaration to End April 1st.
No fooling….see press release below BOSTON—Wednesday, March 9, 2022— Mayor Michelle Wu and Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, Commissioner of Public Health [...]
Giant Spiders Dropping from the Sky in the Spring
You know, something to look forward to. It sounds like the makings of a nightmare of horror film. The University of [...]
Dorchester man arrested for assault + battery on Red Line
From Transit Police News: On March 4, 2022 at approximately 8;50PM Transit Police officers assigned to the South District received a radio call to respond [...]
BPD Recover Drugs and a Loaded Firearm After a Traffic Stop in Dorchester
From BPD News: At about 8:45 PM, on Wednesday, March 2, 2022, officers assigned to the Youth Violence Strike Force, along with the Massachusetts State [...]
The Return of the Dot Day Parade
Big News! After a two year hiatus - thanks to the pandemic - organizers have just announced the Dorchester Day Parade will return this year! [...]
BPHC votes to rescind mask mandate beginning Saturday
Big News! The Boston Public Health Commission met on Tuesday to discuss the city’s mask requirements for schools and businesses. Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, the BPHC [...]
Mayor Wu files an ordinance regarding targeted residential picketing
Boston City Council will hear testimony Monday re: this ordinance. You can tune in here. See Press Release Below: BOSTON – Monday, February 28, 2022 – [...]
Mayor Wu recommends CPA funding for 52 Neighborhood Projects totaling more than $27 Million
This includes $14.6 million in affordable housing projects; $6.1 million in historic preservation projects; and $6.4 million in recreational use and open space projects BOSTON [...]