After a foot chase on early Sunday morning, Boston Police arrested a male 14-year-old on multiple firearm offenses, who also had two active arrest warrants for assault and battery on a police officer ...

Do you have a beautiful garden? Do you have photos of your beautiful garden? Then you should enter the citywide garden contest — the deadline is July 9 at 11:59 pm. Apply to the garden contest using ...

Starting July 14 and continuing through August 25 (but not on the weekends), both directions (one lane at a time) of a small part of Centre Street will be closed to traffic to accommodate new utility ...

In early fall, the hammers stopped swinging and the drills stopped spinning on a five-story residential building at 3368 Washington Street. New residents have been moving in since then, and more than ...

Jamaica Plain nonprofit Community Servings announced a three-year grant of approximately $350,000 from The Rockefeller Foundation to develop a comprehensive case study on the economic and ...

Unlike an affordable housing lottery which has a deadline, there are four new income-restricted Jamaica Plain studios available that will be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis. Boston.gov lays ...

Block parties are great community builders, whether it’s for one block or a neighborhood — and the city wants to help fund block parties across the city. City summer block party grants can be up to ...

Fresh News for the Neighborhood You LoveAbout JP News Jamaica Plain News is an independent online news source and community platform for the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. David ...

Hybrid witch-hazels are amazing! Crosses between the Chinese species of witch-hazel (Hamamelis mollis) and the Japanese species of witch-hazel (Hamamelis japonica) all began at the Arnold Arboretum in ...

Jamaica Plain’s Kaia Minn won a state title for creating a biodegradable seed pouch designed to reforest areas devastated by wildfire or deforestation. The 12-year-old’s invention earned her the honor ...

A local nonprofit has purchased the former EnVision Hotel on South Huntington Avenue, which it has been operating as temporary transitional housing since 2022. Victory Programs is now operating the ...