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A controversial Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) effort to reimagine zoning and planning in select business districts is on hold, for the moment, in Codman Square as officials seek to expand the pilot project’s boundaries to include more of the Washington Street corridor up to Four Corners. The “Squares + Streets” process for Codman Square was set to launch this

BOSTON, April 30, 2024 - To honor Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, the Boston Public Library (BPL) is releasing…

Traditional Vietnamese music filled a dimly lit room at Dorchester’s VietAID Community Center last Saturday as hundreds of people entered the space. Blue waves were cast onto the ceiling while candles flickered at every seat in remembrance of the soldiers who lost their lives during the Vietnam War. The 1975 Vietnamese Diaspora Commemoration Initiative hosted the event, called

The 1975 Vietnamese Diaspora Commemoration Initiative is hosting an "Intergenerational Cultural Commemoration Event" in Fields Corner on Saturday, April 20. This event, titled "Chương Trình Tưởng Niệm, Liên Thế Hệ,” aims to commemorate Black April, a significant moment in Vietnamese Diaspora history, and showcase Vietnamese culture through an intergenerational lens. Held at

The Boston Little Saigon Night Market will join several other festivals on Dorchester Avenue this summer with a July evening devoted to young people in the community – along with the usual Vietnamese and Asian cuisine sold on the street in Fields Corner. Annie Le, director of Boston Little Saigon, told the Fields Corner Civic Association (FCCA) on April 2 that the third

It’s an out with the old and in with the new situation along a prominent stretch of Dorchester Avenue south of Savin Hill as Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) officials confirmed this week that its laboriously developed PLAN: Glover’s Corner will not move forward and instead will be tucked into the new Squares + Streets process in nearby Fields Corner.

Bostonians, who have long faced tough hurdles to secure gun licenses compared to suburban peers, are pressing state lawmakers to ease those restrictions as new gun reform legislation advances on Beacon Hill this season. And, increasingly, the calls on behalf of expanding Second Amendment rights are coming from men and women of color who live in Dorchester and Mattapan. State

The mayor says declining commercial tax values won’t have the dire effects a policy watchdog suggests.

Boston's campaign of planning-led rezoning is proceeding with a recent vote by the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) to petition the Zoning Commission...

Proves to court that she and previous owner of a Dorchester multifamily used and maintained a vacant lot for 20 years.