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Using authority granted under a law just signed by Gov. Charlie Baker, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh plans to work with the city council to lower the default speed limit in Boston from 30 miles per hour to 25 miles per hour. "We know that lower speed limits are an
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BOSTON — With electronic eyes set to take the place of toll plazas, Massachusetts transportation officials have proposed a tiered payment system that strongly favors those who obtain transponders from the state. The all-electronic tolling system set to go live Oct. 28 will provide a 45-cent discount to drivers traveling the
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BOSTON — The tomatoes were sliced with great care. First in half, then one half was itself halved, and then one quarter was cut into bite-sized hunks. As the scent of fresh tomato filled the Boston Public Market on Wednesday, judges prepared to sample the various shapes, sizes and colors of
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Sept. 1 is traditionally the busiest moving day of the year in Boston, and the Department of Conservation and Recreation and the State Police are reminding college students and their parents not to drive overheight moving trucks on Storrow Drive, Memorial Drive, and Soldiers Field Road. The roads, which hug
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BOSTON — The MBTA is preparing to more than double its spending on capital projects over the next five years, aiming to spend $6.5 billion to chip away at its state of good repair backlog and expand the transit system over the next five years. Forecasting that the agency will
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BOSTON — As Boston embarks on a collaboration with an international non-profit to put autonomous vehicles on city streets, Mayor Marty Walsh said he still has some questions about the endeavor – and its legality is questionable. "It's so early in the process. We still have a long way
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STATE HOUSE — Republican National Committeewoman Keiko Orrall of Lakeville is standing by Donald Trump, despite recent news reports about his alleged behavior. "I'm supporting the Republican nominee," Orrall, a state representative, told the News Service Thursday morning, later affirming with greater specificity, "I'm
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STATE HOUSE — Some might be inclined to distance themselves from Caius Veiovis, who reportedly told jurors he would "see you all in hell" after they convicted him for a 2011 triple murder and dismemberment in Pittsfield. Not so James Gavin Reardon Jr.