Signs have gone up along the Emerald Necklace: Stay away from the birds

By [name] - Wed, 01/29/2025 - 11:03am

Boston installing vending machines for addicts who don't want to die

By [name] - Mon, 12/23/2024 - 2:07pm

Tearing down Mass and Cass encampment only spread its problems into surrounding neighborhoods, residents, business owners say

By [name] - Tue, 10/22/2024 - 4:19pm

Boston schedules walk-in flu and Covid-19 vaccination clinics

By [name] - Fri, 10/18/2024 - 2:26pm

It's now safe to fall into the Charles past the Longfellow again, at least in terms of cyanobacteria toxins

By [name] - Wed, 10/09/2024 - 12:41pm

Boston Covid rates and hospitalization increased dramatically last month, but trend is now downward, city says

By [name] - Thu, 08/08/2024 - 4:02pm

Mosquitoes infected with West Nile Virus found in Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, Roxbury and West Roxbury

By [name] - Fri, 07/26/2024 - 2:59pm

Seaport to get its own ambulance station

By [name] - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 1:19pm

City shelter for women loses power

By [name] - Thu, 10/05/2023 - 6:12pm

Councilor asks why Leominster flooding victims get faster emergency declaration than Mass and Cass

By [name] - Wed, 09/13/2023 - 1:20pm

Covid-19 cut Boston life expectancy by more than two years, but by even higher amounts among Blacks, Hispanics and Asian-Americans, report finds

By [name] - Sat, 05/13/2023 - 12:08pm

Boston to shut three of its five remaining Covid-19 vaccination sites

By [name] - Mon, 05/01/2023 - 2:02pm

Revere hotel says Boston owes it $654,000 for holding rooms for Mass and Cass homeless who never came

By [name] - Mon, 04/03/2023 - 9:41am

Judge tosses lawsuit against Boston rule requiring proof of vaccination in indoor public places, not because it's expired, but because the case should never have been brought to begin with

By [name] - Thu, 01/12/2023 - 3:44pm

Flu cases spike in Boston; far higher rate now than last year

By [name] - Fri, 12/09/2022 - 9:43am

As regional Covid-19 wastewater numbers spike again, Boston installing network of city-specific sewage testing sites

By [name] - Mon, 12/05/2022 - 12:12pm

Boston Covid-19 numbers going up again; city recommends, but does not require, indoor mask wearing

By [name] - Fri, 07/15/2022 - 12:40pm

Anti-vaxxers who sued to block Boston indoor vaccination requirement claim they were damaged to the tune of at least $6 million apiece

By [name] - Mon, 03/07/2022 - 11:35pm

That didn't age well: Bunch of anti-vaxxers sue to overturn Boston's indoor vaccine mandate mere hours before it's lifted; they also want city health board ruled unconstitutional

By [name] - Fri, 02/18/2022 - 9:25pm

Boston could reach criteria for ending vaccine mandate for public indoor spaces soon, official says

By [name] - Fri, 02/11/2022 - 10:43am

Attended a protest or vigil recently? Better get tested for coronavirus, city says

By [name] - Tue, 06/09/2020 - 3:25pm

City, Mass. General partner on coronavirus antibody testing in East Boston, Roslindale and parts of Dorchester and Roxbury

By [name] - Sun, 04/26/2020 - 12:14pm

South End now has highest rate of Covid-19 infection in Boston; could be linked to higher testing rates at neighborhood homeless shelters

By [name] - Fri, 04/10/2020 - 8:58pm

Boston restricts sales of menthol cigarettes

By [name] - Tue, 11/26/2019 - 8:39am

Good news and bad news in Boston health report

By [name] - Thu, 02/08/2018 - 9:16am

Councilors clash over elimination of two 'transitional' programs for homeless addicts at city shelter

By [name] - Wed, 03/29/2017 - 2:39pm

Sorry, kids, no more tobacco for you

By [name] - Thu, 12/17/2015 - 8:45pm

Blecch: Cleveland Circle Chipotle also closed for letting a worker handle food while sick, not keeping hot food hot enough

By [name] - Tue, 12/08/2015 - 2:54pm

Franklin Park pond seems to have gotten the icky mess Jamaica Pond had

By [name] - Mon, 08/24/2015 - 7:47pm

Drug overdoses spiking in Boston

By [name] - Tue, 12/23/2014 - 6:12pm

Roxbury, Mattapan residents don't want Long Island programs opened near them

By [name] - Fri, 12/05/2014 - 4:36pm

Officials to discuss plans to use shuttered Roxbury hospital for residential programs displaced from Long Island

By [name] - Wed, 12/03/2014 - 1:27pm

Apparent enterovirus cases declining in city

By [name] - Mon, 10/27/2014 - 3:24pm

City looks for more space for programs evacuated from Long Island - and to preserve the island for future use

By [name] - Mon, 10/27/2014 - 3:13pm

Rickety bridge to Long Island shut

By [name] - Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:23pm

Councilors question proposed Southampton pot dispensary, blast state snub

By [name] - Tue, 03/04/2014 - 3:49pm

City's new ads urging bicyclists to wear helmets are like a 2x4 to the face

By [name] - Mon, 10/15/2012 - 9:25pm

Liquid nicotine in a tube now illegal for Boston teens and in the workplace and restaurants

By [name] - Fri, 12/02/2011 - 8:50am

Boston public-health officials move to bar sale of new nicotine delivery systems to kids

By [name] - Thu, 09/08/2011 - 5:37pm

New England Aquarium volunteer diagnosed with measles

By [name] - Fri, 06/03/2011 - 10:05pm

You did get a flu shot this time, right?

By [name] - Tue, 01/11/2011 - 10:26am

Boston knows how to put on a flu clinic

By [name] - Sun, 12/06/2009 - 1:56pm

New group: Flu Fighters

By [name] - Thu, 11/05/2009 - 4:49pm