A guard at the South Bay House of Correction was charged yesterday with raping a woman inmate  in July, two months after he had been hired, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read ...

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 522 East 5th St., near I Street, in South Boston, for a fire in a townhouse around 2:30 a.m. Read more.

Boston firefighters responded to Eversource's  "Edison" building on South Street in Roslindale after a transformer in the rear of the building burst into flames shortly after 10 p.m. Read more.

Republican in a former Beacon Hill firehouse, yesterday threatened MBTA General Manager Phil Eng with possible loss of federal funds if he doesn't describe, in excruciating detail, what he is doing to ...

WCVB reports the Teamsters and Republic, which provides trash service across the Boston area, reached a deal today to end an 11-week strike.

A federal judge today declined a request from former Transit Police sergeant David Finnerty to overturn a jury's verdict finding him guilty of helping an underling cover up his inappropriate use of a ...

The family that has long owned Alco Auto Parts, 294 Hyde Park Ave. in Jamaica Plain, has teamed up with a Newton developer to replace the store with a six-story, 48-unit apartment in which most of the ...

A downtown law firm that represented Newsmax when it got sued by two different voting-machine companies for going live with lies that their machines were rigged in the 2020 elections yesterday sued ...

Saying it had no choice, the Boston Planning Department board tonight approved plans by a Texas developer for a nine-building apartment complex on the Hyde Park/Roslindale line that has no affordable ...

The Boston Planning Department today approved a series of downtown zoning changes that would make it easier to win approval of residential development than new office buildings, increase new building ...

Boston Police report arresting two Dorchester men on charges they held up the Quincy Variety Store, 236 Quincy St. in Dorchester on Aug. 20. Read more.

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted a Mattapan man for second-degree murder for the shooting death of Lovenson Pierre, 26, of Quincy, on Hazelton Street at Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan on ...