Boston News

CSX has declared "substantial completion" to the $100 million expansion of its freight yard between Shrewsbury and Franklin streets.

A Northeastern University student was held on $30,000 bail today on charges he attacked a woman at knifepoint, threatened to rape her and started cutting her clothes off early Saturday, authorities said.

More like a million to 1! Likely motives, 1. drugs/drug money. 2. baby daddy/mommy issue 3. Fight over the EBT card.

Maintenance on Interstate 93 will require transportation officials to close the expressway through Boston two times per month beginning Tuesday on the northbound side.

With Boston's mayoral and City Council races heating up, many of the candidates turned out Sunday for Charlestown's Bunker Hill Day Parade, taking advantage of an opportunity to get their faces and names out in the community.

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced today that the city will begin staffing 10 pools and one beach seven days a week in preparation for the end of the school year and a hot summer.

This 1980 black and white surveillance photo released by the U.S. Attorney's Office and presented as evidence during the first day of a trial for James "Whitey" Bulger in U.S. District Court in Boston, on June 12, 2013, shows Bulger, center, with Ted Berenson, left, and Phil Wagenheim at a Lancaster Street garage in Boston's North End.

Following are excerpts from the Burlington Police Department log.i»¿ Note that this is a sampling of activity in the log, not a complete account.

The economic downturn caused many construction projects across the area to be put on hold.

Two separate fires in Dorchester buildings Sunday evening caused a cumulative $425,000 in damage and displaced one family, according to Boston fire officials.

Driven by an sharp increase in smart phone requests, the number of reports to Boston's constituent service program has surged in recent years, rising 35 percent since 2010.

Sampling the menu recently at his newest venture, Patrick Lyons called the chefs out of the kitchen to tell them the wings were too wet, the potstickers were too dry, and the mound of slaw with the cheeseburger spring rolls was too big.

Parking is such a precious commodity in Boston that one woman was willing to pay $560,000 for two off-street spaces near her home.

In the U.S. Senate race, Democratic congressman Edward Markey has tried to take his Republican opponent's chief criticism of him - that he's an entrenched Washington insider - and turn it on its head.

A man and a woman were found suffering from gunshot wounds around the same time early Sunday morning in Dorchester about a half-mile apart, according to Boston police.

City Councilors R. John Connolly and Michael P. Ross are ahead of the mayoral pack in capturing the coveted "new Boston" vote by amassing a bulk of the cash coming into the race from the tech-savvy crowd, a Herald review found.

According to figures released last month, the city is now growing faster than its suburbs - and, in fact, faster than any urban area northeast of New Jersey.

If he wasn't calling it quits, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino could have had a great re-election launching pad at Wednesday's President Obama-attended rally in Roxbury for U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey.

At-large City Councilor Felix G. Arroyo officially kicked off his campaign for mayor yesterday, promising residents that if elected he would help build a better Boston.

Boston has landed near the top of the 2013 ParkScore list compiled by The Trust for Public Land ranking how much access citizens have to parks and park amenities.