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The hit-and-run happened at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard around 10:40 Friday night.

A pedestrian has died after being struck by a vehicle that fled the scene late Friday night in the Mass. and Cass area of Boston. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s office confirmed one man is dead following the hit-and-run crash around 10:35 p.m. near Mass. Ave. and Melnea Cass Boulevard, a section of the city that has long been...

A person was stabbed in Boston Tuesday near the troubled Mass. and Cass area of the city. Boston police confirmed they responded to the stabbing on Southampton Street around 1:15 p.m. The victim has injuries that are not life-threatening, police said. More details on what happened were not immediately available. This area of the city has been plagued by issues…

While the confluence of homelessness and substance use in Boston’s “Mass. and Cass” area persists, Mayor Michelle Wu argued Monday that conditions on the ground have improved dramatically in the year since she took office. Wu, who has drawn criticism from a range of fellow policymakers and community leaders over the ongoing issues near Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass...

About half of the people camped in a stretch of Boston known as “Mass. and Cass” most recently resided in another city or town, underlining the regional nature of the addiction and homelessness crises straining the area, Mayor Michelle Wu said Monday. While her administration continues to grapple with how to manage encampments in the area of Massachusetts Avenue and…

There’s been another cleanup effort at Boston’s troubled Mass. and Cass encampment – 10 months after the first one and the city’s declaration of a public health crisis. The Boston Police Department was out Wednesday morning, moving the people living in tents at the encampment. Officers were on Southampton Street Wednesday morning, appearing to have people move with their...

Boston city leaders are trying to find a way to make Clifford Park in Roxbury safer after reports of dirty needles and drug usage. It has become such a problem that a football coach started shouting at a city council hearing on the issue Friday.  Domingos DaRosa coaches the Boston Bengals Pop Warner football team. At practice Wednesday night, one...

A group of Massachusetts politicians are calling on state and local law enforcement to execute an outstanding warrant sweep to clear several areas in South Boston of people suffering from mental health issues and substance abuse. NBC10 Boston obtained a letter that city and state leaders sent to police describing the situation in and around the area known as Mass….

City and state leaders sent a letter to police, obtained by NBC 10 Boston, describing the situation in and around the area of Mass and Cass as a threat to public safety.

More police will be out patrolling the area commonly referred to as Mass. and Cass, a long troubled part of Boston located along Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard.

More police will be out patrolling the area commonly referred to as Mass. and Cass, a long troubled part of Boston located along Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard. The added police presence is coming in response to a recent uptick in violence, according to police, who cited a series of stabbings in the South End neighborhood. Five stabbings were…

A Boston man is accused of sex trafficking women out of a tent at Massachusetts Avenue and Melna Cass Boulevard, the troubled area of the city known as Mass and Cass. Jonathan Vaughan, 35, was indicted on three counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, two counts of transportation of an individual for purposes of prostitution and one…

Bharel spoke exclusively to NBC 10 Boston’s medical reporter Kristy Lee about the city’s effort to clear the tents and what the city is doing to meet the needs of the people that live there

As cleanup at Mass. and Cass continues, more than 150 people at the homeless encampment have been moved into transitional housing.

The last tents have been removed from the intersection of Mass. and Cass, not far from where Boston Mayor Michelle Wu spoke Thursday morning. “Yesterday was a turning point for the City of Boston toward stabilization and recovery,” Wu said at a press conference at the Pine Street Inn. “It’s not the turning of a page that we are...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is scheduled to provide an update on the clearing of the homeless encampment at Mass. and Cass in Roxbury.

Boston has reached Mayor Michelle Wu’s clearing deadline for people living in tents at the homeless encampment known as Mass. and Cass, but dozens of people remain.

More than half of the people who’d been living in the homeless encampment along Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard have left, but more than 60 remain.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said Monday that the city has started to remove tents along Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard and dozens of unhoused people have been placed into housing. More than half of the people who’d been living in the homeless encampment have left, but more than 60 remain. “The encampments that we see and that some individuals…

People living in tents at the Boston homeless encampment known as “Mass. and Cass” have just under a month to leave, as the city on Wednesday announced a deadline of Jan. 12 for the area to be cleared permanently. Boston city officials have been working to connect area residents with social services and new housing, calling the encampment near the…