Allston/Brighton

Boston officials plan to host a community meeting tonight to again discuss a developer’s proposal to build a hotel, upscale apartments, offices, and space for retail, restaurant and parking in a five-story building in Cleveland Circle.

Several Memorial Day observances and services are scheduled in the coming days at public parks and cemeteries throughout Boston.

Boston University women’s hockey coach Brian Durocher has signed a contract extension to remain with the program through 2018-19, Director of Athletics Mike Lynch announced Monday ...

A bicyclist was struck and killed by a vehicle near Bay State Road Sunday afternoon, officials said ...

About three dozen supporters of same-sex marriage gathered in the Boston Public Garden recently to mark the ninth anniversary of its legalization in Massachusetts ...

The first portion of the subway line that would become the MBTA opened more than 115 years ago, and by the standards of that time, it's doing pretty well ...

(Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff) Mayor Thomas M. Menino today at the proposed site of a handicapped friendly park near Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlestown ...

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The cyclist community is coming together to honor the fallen after a string of tragic deaths in Boston this year ...

The finance committee of the state transportation department

A developer is seeking city approval to expand a two-story building on Commonwealth Avenue in Allston by adding four new floors with 220 residential units and to renovate an existing ground-level retail space ...

By Edward Donga BU News Service On Nov. 16, 2009, Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, 37, died of heart failure in Moscow’s Matrosskaya Tishina Prison, after eight guards alledgedly beat him with rubber batons for more than an hour ...

View highlights from live election night special broadcast, Decision 2012.

On a day that’s normally joyous as runners cross the Boston Marathon finish line, BU News Service switched from chronicling triumph to reporting a tragedy.

The Boston Police Department district serving Allston and Brighton will host its 15th annual ???Child Safety Day??? this month ...

The Allston-Brighton Substance Abuse Task Force Youth Coalition recently created its own interpretation of the national Above the Influence principles through completion and sharing of a quilt that represents the positive influences that keep them "above the influence ...

A 12-year-old boy was killed when he was struck by a van in Allston this morning ...

The 37 North Beacon Street proposal, cars or not, seems to have been junked for good at a Board of Appeal hearing on April 23 ...

Rob Consalvo, candidate for mayor, and Michelle Wu, candidate for at-large city council, will be speaking at the BAIA meeting this Thursday, May 2 ...

A fire this morning at 87 Linden Street in Allston has left one person dead and 15 people injured ...

If you were to move to any Massachusetts community, where should you go? We analyzed and ranked each towns crime rateincluding violent and property crime,the number of public transit options, the number of historical sites per resident, the percentage of acres that are open space, and the number of grocery stores ...

Here's a slideshow of the 10 towns with the cheapest home values in Massachusetts ...

How fun is your town? We ranked the top 10 most fun communities in Massachusetts by analyzing the number of restaurants, theaters, and museums, using Tripadvisor and other online sources, per population data provided by the US Census ...

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