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The Boston City Council must make another attempt at redrawing the political boundaries of its nine district seats, a U.S. federal judge ordered on Monday.

The owner of 1420 Dorchester Ave., until recently home to a 7-Eleven, has filed plans with the BPDA to build a four-story, 41-unit residential building with 33 underground parking spaces and a tree. Plans by David Gordon, whose City North Development owns the nearly half-acre lot, show a split between one- and two-bedroom units. The plans do not specify if they will be rented

“Open Streets,” last year’s event that temporarily shut down Dorchester Avenue to traffic and opened it up to pedestrians, is scheduled to return on Sun., Sept. 17. The shutdown will stretch a little over a mile between Fields Corner and Ashmont. City Hall officials have shortened the length from last year’s extent, which ran from Dot Ave. at Freeport Street to Gallivan

The Boston Public Library (BPL) honors Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month by releasing the Asian/Pacific American…

The Boston Public Library released a booklist for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Here’s what’s on it for 2023.

The Santander Bank branch in Uphams Corner is set to close on July 20 and customers will be sent to the Fields Corner branch. The closure is part of the bank's consolidation plan. Santander announced last week that it planned to consolidate brick-and-mortar branches throughout the region, including branches in Boston. The company told the Reporter that the 585 Columbia Rd.

District 3 Councillor Frank Baker’s decision against running for reelection has opened up a seat in a recently reconfigured district that curves down from the Ink Block complex in the South End to Gallivan Boulevard in Dorchester’s Neponset neighborhood and includes more of Fields Corner, which has long been a Vietnamese residential and commercial stronghold. The field has two

The Boston Little Saigon Cultural District’s Night Market (Cho Dem) event will be back again this year on Sat., July 15, after a very successful inaugural event in Fields Corner last summer. Festivities will take place from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Sat., July 15, on blocked-off Dorchester Avenue between Park and Adams streets. No one was more surprised at the large numbers of

A group of business leaders and residents in Fields Corner has called on the city to conduct a parking study that could lead to the first-ever parking meters on Dorchester Avenue. Much of the avenue’s path through the neighborhood has long been governed by two-hour parking restrictions, but enforcement has been lax and inconsistent, leading to a shortage of spaces that is

In the Boston Public Library’s first in-person meeting since before the pandemic set in, BPL President David Leonard and Chris Genter, of Oudens Ello Architects, on Monday night presented the latest conceptual design for a new, $14 million branch library in Fields Corner to a crowd of about 100 residents and library users. Most of the meeting, the second public session in the