The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved a proposal to replace a repair garage with a five-story, 36-unit apartment building at 3458 Washington St., at Kenton Road in Jamaica Plain. Read more.

Brookline.news interviews local shopkeepers about the prices they're having to raise because their wares now cost them more. Among the shops: A local games emporium, which says it's gotten a double ...

The Dorchester Reporter reports the Codman Square Health Center is considering putting in a machine that would dispense free doses of Narcan - which can help revive somebody in an opioid overdose.

Transit Police report they are looking for a guy who punched a bus driver standing in the busway at Sullivan Square around 1:30 p.m. on July 1. Read more.

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters rescued 500 Blue Line riders from an outbound train that up and died in the tunnel between Aquarium and Maverick this afternoon. Read more.

Update: No, Paine didn't write his famous pamphlet here. He wrote it in Philadelphia. They have a historic marker and everything. Jeez.The city posted this photo of Public Works workers hard at work ...

It's good, actually, when people want to replace dilapidated vacant buildings with new housing and other amenities. Yearning for empty storefronts and crumbling facades (with permanent sidewalk ...

The developer of Hood Park off Rutherford Avenue in Charlestown has filed plans for a three-story building with room for a 23,000-square foot supermarket and 18 affordable apartments - including that ...

The rush-hour commute on the Massachusetts Turnpike turned into gridlock when a car erupted in flames on the outbound side past the Pru tunnel and Massachusetts Avenue around 7:15 a.m. Read more.

Cambridge Day reports how one Central Square restaurant owner has lost four chefs to ICE - including one who had worked as a chef for 22 years and is now trapped in a fetid Louisiana for-profit gulag ...

After the regime canceled billions of dollars of federal research grants to Harvard, members of one Defense Department unit kept right on working with a Harvard researcher using a federal grant to ...

The Boston Fire Department reports it rescued two residents from windows at 143 Poplar St. in Roslindale, which quickly went to four alarms after firefighters arrived around 1:30 a.m. Read more.