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

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 ...

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

Boston City Council is set to consider Councilor Ed Flynn's resolution Wednesday. The post Readers: Should Mass. and Cass be ...

Residents in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood are complaining that city leaders aren't doing enough to control open air drug ...

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

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

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

Special to the Journal The Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) has announced that two mosquito test samples obtained from Hyde Park and West Roxbury tested positive for West Nile Virus (WNV). The ...

Mammography rates for Boston’s Asian women used to be dismally low. Two decades later, a mammogram van has tripled rates in a rare win for minority healthcare.

West Nile Virus was detected in mosquitoes in West Roxbury and Hyde Park, Boston, with no human cases reported. Residents are urged to take preventative measures.