The participatory budgeting process was launched following a 2021 ballot question in which 68% of voters approved the creation of the Office of Participatory Budgeting, alongside other changes to the city’s budgeting process, including giving city councilors the ability to amend the city’s budget.
A dozen real estate projects received a combined $64.2 million in funding toward development and preservation of 637 apartments and for-sale condominiums in Boston.
Mayor Michelle Wu has announced that Boston Saves, the City’s children’s savings account program, is offering a January incentive to encourage eligible Boston Public Schools (BPS) families to participate in the program.
The 2025 Mayor’s Youth Summit will take place on Saturday, February 22. The summit is targeted toward youth throughout the city and gives them a forum to showcase their talents and build community. Implemented in 1994 under Mayor Thomas Menino, the summit was hosted annually for 10 years before taking a hiatus in 2005.
City Hall is happy to partner with the Downtown Boston Alliance to host part of their 2025 WINTERACTIVE experience. Art brings joy and curiosity to public spaces that may otherwise seem cold and dark during the long winter months,
City of Boston officials joined Federal and State leaders to announce new funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for key coastal resilience projects including one in East Boston.
This historic $35 million grant from the EPA brings us closer to achieving our goal of a fully electric school bus fleet by 2030 while delivering immediate health and environmental benefits to our students,
Don’t do anything that might make officials detain them. Don’t drive if you’re under the influence or don’t have a license. Be as good a citizen as you can,” the New England consul general for Mexico said.
ICE has already begun rounding up hundreds of illegal immigrant criminals across the country just two days into the Trump administration’s aggressive push — with one Boston-area Haitian gang
Boston is looking to invest $64.2 million in creating and preserving more than 600 income-restricted housing units in eight city neighborhoods, an effort that officials say builds off Mayor