A federal judge yesterday rejected a request from a would-be mayoral candidate for a preliminary injunction that would have required a re-do of the November election with his name on the ballot - ...

At 8:47 a.m., the MBTA reported ten-minute delays on the Blue Line due to signal problems between Wood Island and Orient Heights; reported at 10:18 that the problem had been fixed. Read more.

Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man they say thought he was going to offload some stolen skis at a profit yesterday only to learn the buyers were actually two undercover cops acting on ...

State fisheries officials have announced another victory in the decades-long effort to clean up Boston Harbor: For the first time since 1925, shellfish from sections of the coast along the outer ...

Dedham Animal Control reports it's trying to find who "may have been responsible for beheading and dumping a variety of domestic birds" onto the ice now covering the Mother Brook off Sawmill Lane, ...

A federal judge yesterday granted a Lexington father a preliminary injunction that requires his young son's public school shield him from any books or lessons that involve what the man considers ...

A Boston federal judge today ordered ICE to immediately release a Brazilian national to await a bond hearing, rather than shipping her out of state to await that hearing behind bars since it doesn't ...

Brookline firefighters responded to the Green Line tracks behind the Unified Arts Building on Tappan Street around 7:35 a.m. when some leaves on the inbound side caught fire.  Read more.

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Napper Tandy's, 4195 Washington St. in Roslindale, is looking to shut down and sell its liquor license to La Hacienda, which currently has locations in East Boston, ...

Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man they say has been traveling the nation's byways to shoplift at Target stores in recent months. Read more.

At 7:30 a.m., the MBTA reported that "a signal problem" at Quincy Center meant 15-minute delays on Red Line service to and from Braintree. The T gave the all clear at 8:58.

So "Stranger Things" ended, and one of the characters who was an Emerson student declared she had dropped out for a job at the Herald. And the Boston crowd went wild for the local angle! Unless you ...