When the City Council voted on Oct. 30 to approve Mayor Wu’s compromise over tax rate adjustments, the political conversation was already shifting from meeting a short-term deadline to wrestling with ...

The campaign opposed to phasing out the current tipped-wage structure and increasing the pay for waiters and bartenders to the minimum wage declared victory in the fight over Question 5 around 11 p.m.

Locally, two precincts in Dorchester’s Neponset section lined up with the Republican choice, while the vast majority of Bostonians— roughly 76 percent according to the city’s Election Department— ...

Massachusetts students will no longer have to pass the MCAS exam to earn a diploma in Massachusetts.