Governor Deval Patrick, joined by Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, revealed in a much-anticipated news conference earlier this month a $50 million action plan to buttress the state against the threats of climate change.
Less than a month into his new position as mayor of Boston, Mayor Martin Walsh has dealt with a snowstorm, cancelled school much to the delight of all Boston Public students and made a number of key appointments to his staff. So far, he seems to be having no problem filling former Mayor Menino’s shoes. A week after the new year began, a press release from the mayor’s office laid out a few of the key appointments he had made thus far.
For the Northeastern University campus and surrounding community, the crime statistics for 2013 are in. The areas stretching around Agassiz Road, Symphony Road, Westland Avenue, Saint Stephens Street, around Wentworth’s Sweeney Field and down around Columbus Avenue were considered in the reports provided to the Huntington News by the Boston Police Department.
With just a single email sent out to Attorney General Martha Coakley’s supporters this week, the 2014 Massachusetts gubernatorial election has heated up. The email, had the subject line: “Charlie is just wrong.”
One Fund Boston, a non-profit organization aimed at providing financial support to victims of last year’s Boston Marathon bombings, has announced the future release of a second distribution of donations.
For the first time in 20 years, a new mayor of Boston was inaugurated on Monday. Mayor Martin J. Walsh was sworn in as Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s successor at a packed Conte Forum at Boston College, Walsh’s alma mater, at 10 a.m., marking the end of the Menino era.
By News Staff
Boston’s night owls will no longer have to worry about paying for a cab past 1 a.m. on the weekends, or leaving the bars early to catch the last T.
In a Nov. 3 press release, Governor Deval Patrick announced a one-year pilot program extending Massachusetts...
By Mary Whitfill, News Staff
An audible sigh escaped the lips of Mike Lake as he straightened his red tie and adjusted his smile, one he’d been wearing for three and a half hours by the end of his fundraiser at the Cafeteria Boston on Nov. 6.
As he greeted potential...
By Mary Whitfill, News Staff
Boston police Superintendent William Evans rose in the ranks once again as he was appointed to acting commissioner, replacing Ed Davis who stepped down earlier this month. Since working his way up from a patrolman, Evans has over 30 years of...
Boston may one day welcome a new generation top international athletes as officials placed a bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics.
On Oct. 31, Governor Deval Patrick signed a bill into legislation that formed a nine-member panel to study the possibility of hosting the summer games.
By Mary Whitfill, News Staff
Rejecting offers from Northeastern, Harvard and Suffolk universities, Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced Wednesday that his first job out of the public sector in almost 30 years will be at Boston University.
Menino will co-chair the school’s...
By Khaled Alsenan, News Correspondent
Every day, hundreds of tourists and college students squeeze into tour buses to catch a glimpse of Boston’s countless historic attractions. By 2015, the brochures they hold will advertise the city’s latest innovation: a literary...
