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The body voted 10-3 in favor of renaming the popular tourist destination.

Three incumbents, and one newcomer, should help steer the City Council away from its dysfunction of the last two years.

Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson is expected to sail through in next month’s election, but political observers say her comments on the Israel-Hamas war could be a factor in two years if she faces a stronger opponent.

Councilors continue to hand out hefty, taxpayer-funded pay bonuses to staffers in a practice that smacks of old school politics excess.

With her refusal this week to acknowledge the Hamas terrorist organization as, in fact, a terrorist organization, Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson has scored a bad decisions hat trick.

A Boston city councilor is being slammed for making “antisemitic” statements that perpetuate a “dangerous myth” about “excessive Jewish power and influence” in global affairs, two Jewish groups say.

A Boston rabbi offered a first-hand account of what occurred when Hamas was carrying out its deadly terrorist attack on Israel, speaking of bullet-riddled babies and a young girl being raped while her father was forced to listen over the phone.

During Wednesday's City Council meeting, it became clear that a war half a world away has now become a divisive issue in Boston politics.

Democrats, it is time to clean house. Or, I should qualify that: it is long past the time you should have cleaned house. But rather than kick out the extremists, you Democrats have pretended that they...

Mayor Michelle Wu introduced a plan to clear encampments around Mass. and Cass in August. City Council is nearing a deadline to vote on it.