
Shootings in Boston Are Down About 20% This Year, Police Data Shows. Mattapan and Roxbury Still Carry the Most
BPD incident reports flag 339 shooting incidents January through September 2026, down from 426 in the same months of 2025.

City permit records list five projects valued over $130 million signed off since Sept. 19, from a 432-unit Huntington Avenue tower to a theater in Allston.

Cambridge's 311 system logged 368 rodent sightings January through September, about half of 2022's total. One fresh report targets a public school.

14,037 requests in 30 days. Litter topped the list, and almost half of the Parks Department's cases are marked past due.

The most common BPD incident reports over 30 days weren't the stuff on the evening news.

From Hellcat Records to "Shipping Up to Boston" to a free show for 10,000 back home. A look at the band that never left.

The first hip-hop artist to win Artist of the Year at the Boston Music Awards went from SoundCloud tapes to RCA and back to running his own label.