A person was shot in the back and left side shortly after 7:20 p.m. at 73 Ridgewood St., off Draper Street in Dorchester. Read more.

Watertown News reports on Chief Justin Hanrahan's comments at a Martin Luther King Day breakfast yesterday.

The MBTA reports scads of problems on commuter-rail lines into South Station this morning due to trains with "mechanical issues," and switches with unspecified issues.

Boston Police report officers arrested a 15-year-old they say was in possession of "a Glock 43 with an extended magazine containing eight 9mm rounds" after they first stopped his driver, also 15, for ...

Among the flurry of executive orders issued by the new president today is one that declares people born on American soil are no longer automatically US citizens, because he says so. Read more.

Massachusetts researchers have been tagging great white sharks for years and so we now know they migrate between here and other East Coast locations and the Gulf of Mexico. Read more.

A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about a cat that only appears to be pining for the fjords on West 8th Street in South Boston: ...

Lawyers for Civil Rights today launched its Immigrant Defense Hotline at 617-988-0606 to help people "facing imminent threats related to immigration enforcement, such as immigration raids or mass ...

Boston Police are investigating a stabbing early this morning in the Castle Square apartment complex on Tremont Street in the South End. Read more.

Last week, as part of its "safety surge" program, Boston installed 13 speed bumps on Allandale Street in Jamaica Plain, between the parkway and the entrance to Allandale Farm, which turns out to also ...

A cameraman for WCVB's "Chronicle" show may have had legitimate religious reasons to reject Covid-19 vaccinations, but the cost of providing separate accommodations for him to keep working meant the ...