When we asked readers if the city should declare a public health and safety emergency, the overwhelming majority of ...

The cyanobacteria bloom, also known as blue-green algae, can sicken people and animals who come in contact with it.

How should Boston address its intertwined crises of homelessness and open drug use? Mayor Michelle Wu and Josh Kraft have ...

South End residents who live near the Mass. and Cass intersection have been raising the alarm for months that public drug use ...

Boston will soon channel $5 million into local coalitions working to tackle longstanding health disparities that have ...

During a Boston City Council meeting in October 2024, Beacon Hill resident Katherine Kennedy said she hasn’t seen this level ...

Health officials say there is an elevated count of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, in the Charles River this weekend.

On Tuesday, Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn filed a resolution to declare the area around Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass ...

Boston City Councilor Sharon Durkan, an ally and former employee of Mayor Michelle Wu, blocked a resolution offered by Wu admin critic Ed Flynn that sought to issue an emergency declaration for ...

The City Council progressed in its war on Boston’s burgeoning rat population Wednesday by moving forward an ordinance to ...

A bloom of toxic blue-green algae was found in the Charles River near the Harvard Bridge on Thursday, prompting health ...

The former head of the US Food and Drug Administration is testing the Trump administration’s commitment to “Make America ...