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The Revere City Council sharply criticized National Grid during a hearing about the installation of an underground conduit on Campbell Avenue for HYM’s development project at Suffolk Downs. Alex Glanville, a representative of National Grid, took the brunt of the Council’s remarks at the speaking podium inside the Council Chambers. Ward 2 Councillor Ira Novoselsky

The cheers you may have heard in Revere Monday night were those of parents of schoolchildren applauding the City Council for voting by an 8-2 margin to approve a loan order in the amount of $29.5 million for the acquisition of the Wonderland Park property. Wonderland was designated by the Revere High School Building Committee

In a move that dramatically affects the advancement of the new high school project for now, the Council deferred to a subcommittee a request for a loan order of $29.5 million for the acquisition of the former Wonderland Greyhound Park property. Wonderland was the No. 1 choice by the Revere High School Building Committee for

Lauren Buck has been appointed as Revere’s new chief of health and human services following a unanimous vote of the City Council Monday night. Buck has served commendably as the director of public health in Revere for the past two years and earned a promotion to a position in the cabinet of the Mayor Brian

Jared Kushner said in an interview with Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell that hes optimistic about his chances of living forever.

The City Council voted unanimously Monday to amend the ordinances related to the life science center being proposed at the Suffolk Downs site that is being redeveloped by HYM Investment Group. The vote – which will reduce the Biosafety Level (BSL) at the life science center from BSL-3 to BSL-2 and create restrictions on the

The Revere School Safety Community Forum, held Aug. 12 at the West Revere School Complex, was an informative event that gave parents an in-depth look at how the City of Revere, Revere school officials, the Revere Police Department, and the Revere Fire Department are working as a team to keep the school community safe in

Restrictions on hiring police chiefs from outside their departments are common in Massachusetts. In Revere, the mayor wanted the option to look for a top cop externally to clean up a "toxic culture" within the city's police force. But, a city law made that impossible.

A Massachusetts mayor wanted to look outside for a chief to clean up a “toxic” police department. But a city ordinance forced him to promote from within.

Believing that an inclusionary zoning proposal would not help provide “real affordable housing opportunities” to residents, the City Council voted against establishing an inclusionary zoning ordinance in the city at its meeting Monday night. The Zoning Sub-Committee, under the direction of Chair Patrick Keefe, the Ward 4 councillor, began the meeting by opening the floor