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Just months after leaving office, former Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino has been diagnosed with an advanced form of cancer that has spread to his liver and lymph nodes.

I was at a party a few weeks ago and was telling someone I'd just met about the First Annual Boston Design Week taking place March 20-30.

The national Unitarian Universalist Association, headquartered in a historic Beacon Hill building, is looking for a new home that will offer more open space and modern facilities.

Boston is about to be the center of the hospitality industry, thanks to an onset of hotels opening in the Hub this year.

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced Friday he is forming a task force to consider whether bars and restaurants should stay open until 3:30 a.m. PHOTO BY EMILY ZABOSKI/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF With the fast-approaching launch date of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's late-night hours, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced a plan to revamp ... (more)

A coalition of recycling groups presented the zero waste master plan at City Hall Tuesday, which calls for increasing ways to reclaim organic waste, a move that will create more jobs and generate millions of dollars in revenue.

St. Patrick's Day festivities were in full swing Sunday with the usual merriment of bagpipes and beer, but political tensions lingered in the northeastern U.S., where city leaders will be conspicuously absent from parades over gay rights issues.

The float with the rainbow cannon fire finally took the turn onto Broadway and lumbered slowly as it joined the St. Patrick's Day parade in South Boston.

Host Linda Dorcena Forry kicked off the annual St. Patrick's Day breakfast by poking fun at the controversy that led up to the breakfast, while paying tribute to former Mayor Thomas M. Menino who has been diagnosed with cancer.

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Investigators are hoping to learn the cause of the deadly explosion that leveled two New York City apartment buildings now that most of the rubble has been cleared away.

The weeks-long saga of summits and recriminations between parade organizers and the gay activists they have excluded for two decades has been painful to watch.

The Boston Globe reports that doctors found "an advanced cancer of unknown origin" that had metastasized.

Former mayor Thomas M. Menino has been diagnosed months after leaving office with an advanced form of cancer that has spread to his liver and lymph nodes, a jolting discovery that he described as the most profound challenge of his life.

Boston police arrested the adopted son of a West Roxbury man found killed in his home Friday morning, said Jake Wark, spokesman for the Suffolk County district attorney's office.

A 33-year-old man has been arrested and charged in the slaying of his 66-year-old father whose body was found in his West Roxbury home yesterday, law enforcement officials said.

In much of the country, low-cost beers in the early evening are a mainstay of office bonding - perhaps even the unsung lubricant of a schmoozy new economy.

According to Zillow's home value index, median sale prices - values that fall in the middle of a range of numbers rather than taken as an average of all prices - were $418,300 for February 2014.

A two-alarm fire early Saturday on Bennington Street in East Boston caused an estimated $350,000 in damage and displaced nine people, according to the Boston Fire Department.

Just before Saint Patrick Day, get into the spirit of the Green with a variety of Irish talent on March 15-16!-slide0 Channel your inner Lord of the Dance & learn a few key Irish step moves for St. Patrick's Day.