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April school vacation week is coming and Boston girls ages 11-15 are invited to register now for the annual All Girls Sports Festival.

Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department will celebrate the reopening of Childe Hassam Park in the South End with a ribbon cutting and block party on Saturday, April 26, at 1:30 p.m. The reopening of the park, located at 314 Columbus Avenue, marks the completion of a project with a construction budget funded by $278,531 ... (more)

As early as this August, Boston could become the first American city with a Literary Cultural District.

With a major city approval in hand, developers of a long-planned public food market in Boston said they will start renovations this summer to transform an empty, state-owned building into a showcase for Massachusetts farmers, fisherman, and specialty food makers.

The state gambling commission on Friday rebuffed Mayor Martin J. Walsh's call for its chairman to recuse himself from any involvement in licensing a casino in the Greater Boston region.

The scenes from the iconic show "Seinfeld" about a "Soup Nazi" with Jason Alexander are definitely memorable.

FOUR PEOPLE are killed and about 265 injured in the Marathon Day bombings and their aftermath and thereupon follows an astonishing outpouring of grief, compassion, media coverage, and money.

6. Vote to accept jurisdiction for park purposes, three parcels owned by the City of Boston that together are known as Erie/Ellington Park in Dorchester.

Faneuil Hall Marketplace is the 7th most-visited tourist attraction in the world, according to lovehomeswap.com.

Seventy five years after Dorothy crash-landed in Munchkinland, the 1939 classic film "The Wizard of Oz" had an updated premiere in Hollywood on Sunday .

According to an article published yesterday in Modern Farmer , the signing of Article 89 last December has led to a renaissance in urban farming in Boston.

US marshals have shut down an unlicensed radio station in Boston's Grove Hall neighborhood, said Charles Clemons, the one-time mayoral candidate who is the station's founder.

"I never planned anything, it just osmosed from one thing to another," says Fred Taylor of his career in music.

Boston Police officers walked along side hearse carrying the body of Boston Police Officer Dennis Simmonds down North Main Street in Randolph.

House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne Street, Boston has Texas country singer and song writer, Pat Green on Friday night, April 18, 2014.

This year's summit includes more workshops and expanded focus to include topics specific to men, LGBTQ survivors, high school and middle school aged students, and service providers.

In Nassau road construction. two lanes closed on The L.I.E./I-495 EB between x33/Lakeville Rd and x36/Searingtown Rd In New Hyde Park road construction.

Boston firefighters are battling a suspected gas explosion that blew a multi-family house apart and sparked a three-alarm fire in Dorchester tonight, with 11 people transported to the hospital, according to officials and a witness.

The city of Boston is getting an amazing, life-size bronze statue of Edgar Allan Poe this fall.

A Jamaica Plain-based furniture store is preparing to open another location in Provincetown next month.