KIM JANEY

Republicans hoping to hold on to the Massachusetts governor’s office are choosing between a Donald Trump-backed candidate and a moderate businessman in Tuesday’s primary election.

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is headed to Harvard this fall as a teaching fellow at the both the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard T.

When she was elected mayor of Boston in November, Michelle Wu transformed the image of the city’s chief executive.

Workers have started removing the last tents from a homeless encampment at a Boston intersection known as Mass and Cass.

Michelle Wu has been sworn in as Boston’s first woman and first person of color elected mayor in the city’s history.

Two major U.S. cities have elected their first Asian American mayor and a third could join them.

One of the two candidates In Boston’s historic mayor’s race has found herself questioned about her decision to identify as a person of color.

Boston voters have for the first time narrowed the field of mayoral candidates to two women of color who will face off against each other in November.

Democrat Michelle Wu has emerged the top vote-getter in a runoff election for the next mayor of Boston, but the race to decide her opponent in November is too early to call.

Boston’s police commissioner has been fired following a bitter battle to keep his job after decades-old domestic violence accusations came to light.

Former Boston City Council President Kim Janey, 55, speaks after being sworn in as Boston's new mayor at City Hall, Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in Boston. She was the City Council president and will serve as acting mayor until a mayoral election in the fall. She also pledged to work to ensure that police in the city serve all residents fairly. Pressley described Janey as “a proud fourth-generation daughter of Roxbury," the heart of the city’s Black community. Her father was one of only eight Black students to graduate from the city’s prestigious Boston Latin School in 1964.