A man with an MIT chemistry degree and his husband won Licensing Board approval today for a distillery and tasting room on Heath Street on the JP line that will focus on home-grown, high-end versions ...

The Boston Licensing Board today unanimously approved a food-serving license for El Parche,  636-638 Bennington St. in East Boston, after urging both owner Mery Pereanez-Quintana and residents to try ...

As the morning rush was ending, Thomas Connors found himself stuck at Park Street, thanks to a dead Red Line train - and not one of the superannuated 19th-century trains, but one of the trains that ...

The guy who got Google Maps to name a Hancock Village driveway as Maranville Street - which led to the MBTA adopting the road for its 51 bus maps - took the next logical step this week: He filed a 311 ...

The Heights reports students had to evacuate a dorm at 2150 Commonwealth Ave. late Monday after somebody called in what turned out to be a bomb hoax. Some students, thinking the alarm that went off ...

CommonWealth Beacon reports Boston will once again try to convince the state legislature to let it temporarily shift more of the overall property-tax burden onto owners of large commercial buildings, ...

The city of Chelsea today filed what it hopes will become a class-action antitrust suit against companies that make fire engines and ladder trucks, alleging they have conspired for years to inflate ...

The owners of Bánh Mì Ơi on Centre Street in West Roxbury are taking over the former Christo's space next door to open an American-style 50's-like diner specializing in comfort foods like burgers and ...

A 30-year-old Chicago man was arrested today on a federal charge of sexual exploitation of a child for the way he allegedly pretended to be a Boston-area teen to get a young Brookline teen to perform ...

A federal judge ruled today that the regime cannot cut off payments to Massachusetts and 21 other states that now go to reimburse Planned Parenthood clinics for treating Medicaid patients while legal ...

A man was shot in the head at 27 Havre St. at Cunard Way in East Boston's Maverick Square around 5:50 p.m. Read more.

The Boston Licensing Board has to decide whether a South Boston bar acted appropriately in the way it dealt with a couple of patrons who decided to do some pushups, then refused to leave early on Sept ...