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A Boston-area mosquito pool tested positive for West Nile Virus, health officials said on Thursday.

One of the jurors in the Probation Department corruption trial has lashed back at Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh for what he called "reckless" comments defending political patronage on Beacon Hill, saying the mayor failed to recognize the charges the jury was considering.

Select areas of Boston will receive 75 liquor licenses over the next three years after a Massachusetts joint committee approved an economic development bill on Wednesday night.

The city of Boston is seeking a buyer for four connected parcels in Mattapan that could be the city's latest apartment complex.

For just over 60 years, the Freedom Trail has topped Boston's most popular tourist attractions.

Johnny Depp got a visit from his fiance Amber Heard while filming the adaptation of "Black Mass" in Lynn on July 21. Live palm tress were planted in the sand of Revere Beach to transform the area into Miami Beach on July 8. A scene from the movie "Black Mass" will be filmed there for the next several days.

The sound of an orchestra, swelling from a boom box, filled the Paul Revere Mall in the North End one recent Saturday afternoon.

Casting has been announced for the Boston engagement of Disney's The Lion King .

Coast Guard investigators are looking into what caused a Boston whale-watching boat to venture into restricted waters, where it became entangled on a floating cable and forced 163 passengers to spend Monday night at sea.

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It's more than two years away, but charter-school advocates are already eyeing the 2016 ballot after the state Senate dealt a blow earlier this summer to the movement to expand enrollment in charter schools in Massachusetts.

The fire began at around 8 a.m. and was being fought near the rear of 102 Webster St. and 309 Sumner St., according to fire officials.

Crews responded at 8:35 a.m. to the rear of 102 Webster St. and 309 Sumner St. in East Boston for a building fire.

A powerful fire ripped into three buildings in East Boston this morning, sending a large plume of smoke above the city's skyline and leading Boston Fire Commissioner Joseph E. Finn to take command of the six-alarm blaze which was brought under control in an hour.

Each year, first responders from Boston Emergency Medical Services and other public safety agencies respond to a wide variety of medical emergencies and public safety issues on Massachusetts' largest transportation system, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's subways, buses and stations.

There are a lot of events to check out in Boston and the surrounding areas this summer and as it comes to a close in the next month check out these five Boston local rock shows listed below.

Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a bill authorizing a $1 billion expansion of the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

It's been four months since we first got word that heaven in pizza form would be coming Boston's way, but today things got real.

Boston health officials announced today that the first evidence of mosquitoes with the West Nile virus have been found in Boston.

Kelly Saito, president of Gerding Edlen, Heather Campisano, BRA chief of staff, Justin Krebs, principal at Normandy Real Estate Partners and Mark Edlen, CEO of Gerding Edlen.