Massachusetts cities and towns fighting the controversial MBTA zoning law are celebrating lightly after the State Auditor’s Office determined the mandate is “unfunded,” meaning they can seek an ...

Currently, the Boston Town Area Committee (BTAC ... rural county like Lincolnshire. “This plan may fit in places like Manchester and Birmingham, but it doesn’t work for a county like Lincolnsh ...

Others, such as Needham, west of Boston, held townwide votes ... and raise their own children. The plan is set for another vote at Marblehead’s next town meeting, in May. The age of the average ...

South Boston Town Council will hear an update on a master plan for the Riverdale area at its Monday meeting. The meeting will ...

As crime has reached a 7-year high in Downtown Crossing and the areas around the Common, Boston’s mayor, top cop and prosecutor are blaming congregate drug use from ...

One has started construction so far. A Boston real estate developer won planning-board approval on Thursday for his third office-to-housing conversion under a city tax-break program, this time in ...

The complex is being proposed by Old Boston Neck Road LLC ... and claimed it wasn't consistent with the town's comprehensive plan, the State Housing Appeals Board found that the town's affordable ...

Milton’s Select Board voted 3-2 against submitting an MBTA Communities Act action plan to the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities by the state deadline, arguing that the town ...