Downtown gets new zoning that encourages taller residential buildings

Downtown gets new zoning that encourages taller residential buildings
Map of new maximum building heights downtown.

Man shot to death in Jamaica Plain apartment complex

October 22

A man was shot in the head and chest at 15 St. Rose St. in the South Street apartment complex in Jamaica Plain shortly after 5:50 p.m.

Woman stabbed at South Bay; suspect arrested, ordered to Bridgewater

October 22

Boston Police report a woman was stabbed with a box cutter on Allstate Road in South Bay Mall in Dorchester around 5:17 p.m. on Tuesday....

New 'skyline' zoning approved for downtown; would make it easier to put up residential towers

October 22

Banker & Tradesman reports the Boston Zoning Commission this morning unanimously approved new "skyline" zoning for Downtown and Park Square that would make it easier for developers to build housing in what had long been the city's largest...

Man who spent 15 years in prison and 32 years on parole for a Roxbury murder he didn't commit sues city, three detectives he says framed him

October 22

Milton Jones, who had his murder conviction for the 1975 murder of a Dudley Square bar owner formally expunged last year, yesterday sued the city and the three Boston Police detectives he says framed him during an era when framing Black men was just a part of the job....

Residents march to support the more than 30 Somerville residents grabbed by ICE

October 22

Cambridge Day reports.

MAGA chud tells conservative students at BC that liberals plan to kill them all

October 22

The Heights reports some MAGA provocateur working for a group founded by JD Vance came to the BC campus to tell students they better be prepared to be murdered because liberals will stop at nothing to spread trans gay open borders around the world and that it's time for the white men in the audience to go to Washington to do something about it, assuming the liberals don't get to them first.

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