The most diverse Boston City Council body was sworn into office.

Boston’s city council swore in the most diverse group in its history on Monday. The Boston Herald reports the 13-member council made up more than half by women and people of color were ushered in by Mayor Marty Walsh during a ceremony at Faneuil Hall. The council had been a white male bastion for decades, but Boston is now...

Former Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner has died at the age of 78, according to the Boston Globe. Current City Councilor Kim Janey confirmed the news Wednesday on Twitter. “He has 50-plus years of organizing for this city,” Janey told the Globe. “Transformational changes have been made because of Chuck Turner. Lives have been changed because of Chuck Turner.” “Councilor…

A single vote has settled a contested Boston City Council seat, officials announced Monday night. Julia Mejia won the city’s fourth and final at-large seat, beating Alejandra St. Guillen in a tally of 22,492 votes to 22,491 votes. “I am so overwhelmed by today’s results,” Mejia said in a tweet Monday night. “Thank you to all 22,492 people who believed…

Boston officials are expected to begin recounting tens of thousands of election ballots to settle a contested City Council seat.

Women will be in the majority in Boston’s new city council, as will people of color.

Tuesday was a history-making election in Boston.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley backed fellow Massachusetts Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren in her bid to be president Wednesday, citing the way the senator has been fighting for the people. Pressley’s endorsement adds a prominent progressive voice to Warren’s list of supporters.

Voters in Massachusetts took to the polls on Tuesday, weighing in on local questions and leaders and voting for one Boston city councilor by a margin of just 10 votes. Julia Mejia beat Alejandra Nicole Stguillen for the fourth Boston City Council at-large seat by a mere 10 votes. Incumbents Michelle Wu, Michael Flaherty and Annissa Essaibi George were re-elected by voters.

The race for Boston’s 8th City Council District features a rare thing: a Republican. Hear from her, and another candidate.

Two aides of Boston Mayor Marty Walsh were found guilty of conspiracy to commit extortion on Wednesday after prosecutors accused them of bullying organizers of a music festival into hiring union laborers. While the city’s tourism chief Kenneth Brissette and its head of intergovernmental affairs Timothy Sullivan were both found guilty of conspiracy to commit extortion, Brisette was found guilty...

The jury began deliberations Tuesday in the trial of two Boston city officials accused of bullying organizers of a music festival into hiring union laborers. Prosecutor Laura Kaplan said Boston Calling organizers were pressured to hire union workers to appease the people who “helped to elect their pro-union boss,” a reference to Mayor Marty Walsh.

The defense rested in the Boston Calling music festival extortion trial Monday, after former Boston Police Commissioner William Evans testified. Two former aides of Boston Mayor Marty Walsh were accused in federal court of bullying organizers of the into hiring union workers at the festival by saying that, if they didn’t hire union workers, workers would picket.

Animal rights groups are asking lawmakers in Massachusetts to prohibit the sale of pets from breeders who mistreat them. Advocates are pushing for a ban on animals from out-of-state commercial breeding facilities known as “puppy mills” being sold in the Bay State. They have the support of some lawmakers, but they are also facing opposition from the pet industry.

Opening arguments were made Tuesday in the trial of two aides of Boston Mayor Marty Walsh who face extortion charges for allegedly bullying organizers of the Boston Calling music festival into hiring union workers. Prosecutors allege that city tourism chief Kenneth Brissette and Director of intergovernmental relations Timothy Sullivan – who are both on paid leave — told organizers of...

Two of Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s top aides will go to trial this week on charges that they bullied music festival organizers into hiring union workers if they wanted city permits. City tourism chief Kenneth Brissette and director of intergovernmental relations Timothy Sullivan face trial on extortion charges in U.S. District Court.

a group of female candidates are trying something new, spearheaded by three-term incumbent, Michelle Wu.

Sixty plus candidates may be a record for a Boston City Council race which typically attracts about a dozen candidates. Three of the current 13 Councilors are unopposed, but the other 10 seats are up for grabs, and a majority of the candidates are women or minorities.

Tuesday was the final day to turn in signatures to qualify for the Boston City Council election.

Just after noon Wednesday, in the Boston City Council chamber, 78-year-old Alethea Garrison was sworn into her dream job. But the road to city councilor was a bumpy one for Garrison, who has run for several different elected offices since the 1980s — as a Democrat, as a Republican and now as an independent — winning just once in the...