The Boston City Council's regular Wednesday meeting came to a halt around 1:25 p.m. when Councilor Julia Mejia (at large) suffered some sort of medical emergency. Read more.

MassDOT says it's closing the little bridge that carries West Roxbury Parkway over the Needham Line track on July 19 and will keep it shut for five months as a contractor replaces the crumbling span.

WBZ reports on the largest nurses' strike in Massachusetts history, which started this morning over pay, health insurance and the use of temps.

Jamaica Plain News reports on a mural behind Burrito's on Washington Street (between the Midway Cafe and where Doyle's used to be) that shows Obama and Bourdain sharing a beer.

A federal judge last week sentencing an executive secretary for the Boston Housing Authority to two years of probation and ordered her to repay some $72,000 she received in pay for overtime hours she ...

WBZ reports the landing craft turned tour bus/boat flipped on its side after it became disabled in the Charles, was towed back to its Cambridge ramp by another Duck Boat and the tow rope snapped just ...

Thomas Connor was among the unfortunate riders on the Needham Line's Train 667, who spent an uncomfortable amount of time ...

An employee of a Russian technology firm faces arraignment in Boston federal court on Thursday on charges he helped ...

NBC Boston reports two UMass Amherst researchers have confirmed that over the past three years, Manila clams have established themselves in coastal waters from Provincetown to Salem, but that them's ...

A concerned citizen filed a 311 report about a traffic cone at Dartmouth and Stuart streets in the Back Bay that a Scot would ...

Transit Police report they are looking for a guy who, when somebody told him to stop threatening a girl on an Orange Line car ...

Three videographers at WHDH who spent much of Monday, Jan. 26 outdoors during a blizzard so that reporters could show viewers what it's like to stand in the middle of a blizzard say they were only ...