Police seize dirt bikes at BHA projects across Boston
Boston Police report seizing 16 off-road vehicles at BHA projects in raids this morning.The raids, conducted with BHA Police, state Environmental Police, ISD inspectors and the National Insurance Crime...
View ArticlePair of loons spotted off Castle Island
Katia reports:SO stoked to see a pair of loons at the Sugar Bowl in Southie this morning.Her sighting comes a couple weeks after somebody spotted a loon at Jamaica Pond.
View ArticleFlames consume car on Congress Street near the water
Christine Beaton looked out her window to see a car self-immolating on Congress Street at Sleeper around 9:30 a.m.Kai Segrud took some video of the flaming car:pic.twitter.com/smkXIOqhJm— Kai Segrud...
View ArticleSouth Boston building juggernaut slows ever so slightly as zoning board...
The Board of Appeal today rejected an East 5 Street resident's proposal to raze a garage and replace it with a two-family home with six parking spaces.The board expressed reservations about Alex...
View ArticleDriverless cars to get to practice left turns along waterfront, in Fort Point
WBUR reports the city has let a Cambridge company piloting driverless cars expand its testbed to include much of the South Boston Waterfront and Fort Point.
View ArticleSouth Station expansion plan calls for replacing Widett Circle businesses...
Proposed expanded South Station.A MassDOT environmental report details plans to expand South Station over nine years that would hinge on getting the Postal Service to finally abandon its giant facility...
View ArticleFailed race promoter sues city environmental official
WCVB reports the guy behind the plan to have race cars speed around the South Boston Waterfront has filed a $15-million law suit against Boston environment chief Austin Blackmon, alleging Blackmon...
View ArticleSouth Boston power station could become large mixed-use project over 10 to 15...
The owners of the generating station that towers over South Boston has started the formal process of turning the site into a development with 2.1 million square feet of residential, commercial, office,...
View ArticleNow that they're done tearing down bars, South Boston developers turn to gas...
Developers are proposing to tear down a Gulf station at West Broadway and A Street to put up a 65-unit residential building.In addition to residences, developers Michael Moore and Patrick Costello also...
View ArticleSouth Boston conveyor-belt company could be replaced by, of course, a...
A company that has sold conveyor belts and motors at 20 West 5 St. since 1970 has reached a deal to move out so a developer can build 54 residential units.In a "letter of intent" filed with the BPDA...
View ArticleHere comes the sun
pic.twitter.com/Ud05T5u1E5— Eric Ballard (@omiceric) May 3, 2017Eric Ballard watched the sun come up this morning.
View ArticleTwo dead in South Boston penthouse; police shoot suspect
Fri, 05/05/2017 - 20:38UPDATE: Boston Police identify the suspect as Bampumim Teixeira, 30, of Chelsea; say the victims were a man and a woman in their 50s.Around 8:40 p.m. in an 11th-floor penthouse...
View ArticleSouth Boston victims were doctors, and engaged
North Shore Pain Management, a Beverly medical practice, has announced the death of Dr. Richard Field.Field owned the 11th-floor condo in the Macallen Building on Dorchester Avenue where he and his...
View ArticleReport: Macallen murder suspect worked for security company that used to...
The Globe reports on the hospital-room arraignment today of Bampumim Teixeira, charged with murdering Richard Field and Lina Bolaños in Field's penthouse condo at the Macallen Building on Dorchester...
View ArticleState finally finds a use for that abandoned train track to the waterfront:...
MassDOT announced today it will spend $32 million to convert the abandoned Track 61 along the Haul Road up by the convention center into a test bed on which to test the new Red Line cars that are...
View ArticleMan shot at South Boston project
Tue, 05/09/2017 - 23:38In the stomach at 57 Orton Marotta Way around 11:40 p.m. on Tuesday, Mark Parkinson reports.Free tagging: Orton Marotta WayGunsNeighborhoods: South BostonTopics: Crime
View ArticleMBTA to add buses to South Boston routes
The Bulletin reports the T is adding seven buses - and the drivers to drive them - to the 7 and 9 routes in September, due to ridership increasing 84% in recent years.
View ArticleDA: No foul play in drowning death of 7-year-old at Carson Beach last summer
Kyzr Willis's did not drown in the water off Carson Beach last summer because of any malicious action, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.An boy somebody claimed to have seen with "an...
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Developers propose nearly 1,600 residential units at old South Boston power...
Architect's rendering. See it larger.The developers working on transforming the 15-acre Boston Edison power-plant site today filed formal plans with the BPDA and state environmental regulators for 2.1...
View ArticleHerald pricks anti-vaxxers, eliciting a response
Titanium Cranium shows us the small group of pro-measles anti-vaxxers who showed up in front of the Herald offices today to express their outrage at a Herald editorial accusing their Minnesota kin of...
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