The suit claims Boston is using a new firefighter cadet program to bypass veterans and other more qualified candidates.

A lot happens in Boston every day. To help you keep up, WBUR, Boston's NPR News station, pulled these stories together just ...

By Melissa Nann Burke, The chant that greeted Mary Sheffield on Detroit’s primary election night rang true Tuesday: “First female mayor! First female mayor!” ...

Boston City Councilor Julia Mejia publicized her bid for Council president, thrusting the typical backroom negotiations into the public eye while citing a desire to disrupt a process that has ...

It’s not just Zohran Mamdani — socialist candidates won municipal elections across the US last week. Like the New York ...

Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is heading for a second four-year term, after running unopposed in the Nov. 4 mayoral election. Wu, 40, became the first woman and person of color elected to lead ...

Rest in peace, old Boston. The official numbers were not yet in, but the writing was on the wall when Frank Baker, a ...

Michelle Wu ’07 is poised to cruise to reelection on Tuesday to serve a second term as mayor of Boston, after a first term marked by national attention and opposition to the Trump administration.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu gathered with supporters at a restaurant in the Seaport on Tuesday night to celebrate her unopposed election to a second term.

It was a big day in the Big Apple. New York City’s paradigm-shifting mayoral election Tuesday drew the biggest turnout at least since 1969 — as some voters said this year’s race is one of the most ...