A former Boston mayor who led the city for 16 years including racially turbulent times in the 1970s has died. Kevin H. White was 82.

Japan Airlines will fly the much-anticipated Boeing aircraft, which can fly long distances with less fuel than other planes its size, on its inaugural Boston-Tokyo flight April 22. The Japan Airlines flight, offered in partnership with American Airlines, is the first nonstop route between Boston and Asia.

UMass Boston awards scholarships to city students The $2 million scholarship program has been in the works since 1999, and is expected to benefit about 1,000 Boston Public School students over 15 years. The city’s Water and Sewage Commission recently gave the university about nine acres of land at Harbor Point, next to the campus, that had been used as a pumping station decades ago. In exchange ...

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino is forming a special commission to help oversee the casino debate in the state#39;s largest city.

Boston police are still investigating the city#39;s first killing of 2012. A police spokeswoman said Monday that police have released no new details or the identity of a man in his 20s who was found shot inside a residence in the Dorchester neighborhood.