A non-profit group that wants to put affordable housing on 7 1/2 acres of East Boston waterfront it owns is suing the state agency that says the land can only be used for marine industries - or yacht storage - even though the land has no docks or access to the harbor's main shipping channel. Read more.
A ferry sits along a snow-covered East Boston waterfront in 1911. Read more.
Wave hitting Winthrop Parkway in Revere. Photo by Brian Riccio.
Morrissey Boulevard? Long Wharf? Winthrop Drive? All shut at the morning high tide as wind-whipped waves came ashore. But also Day Boulevard in South Boston. Read more.
Matt Frank tracked Santa making his way across the harbor on a State Police patrol boat to Chelsea.
WFXT reports on the body found this morning.
No, there is no Smiley Face Killer.
Eric Bender reports on a City Council hearing last week about what happens as seas continue to rise and storms grow more intense.
The navigational marker at which Denver's boat suddenly stopped.
A judge ruled this week that there's enough evidence to warrant a criminal trial to determine whether Ryan Denver is guilty of involuntary manslaughter and assault and battery for crashing his speed boat into a 40-foot-tall navigational marker in Boston Harbor early on July 17, 2021, sending him and all of his passengers - one of whom drowned - into the water. Read more.
Surveillance video via BPD.
Boston Police report a South Boston man is at a local hospital for treatment and waiting arraignment on charges he fired several flares at Rowes Wharf, causing damage to both the Boston Harbor Hotel and boats docked there and for the hypodermic needles he threw at responding officers, one of whom was stabbed by one of them after the man had been cuffed. Read more.
For the past week, members of the Nipmuc and Massachusett tribes gathered daily at the Little Mystic Boat Ramp in Charlestown to burn a large pine log, then carve it out to create a mishoon or traditional canoe.
Wraithe was there when they put the canoe into the water for the first time today. Read more.
Lisa Green watched the sunrise over Peddocks Island this morning.
Saturday morning, Adam Balsam took in the sunrise over Graves Light: Read more.
CSO warning from BPHC.
The Boston Public Health Commission reports all the rain has overloaded local sewer mains, to the point that one MWRA outflow pipe, upstream of the North Washington Street Bridge, started pouring sewage-laden water into the inner harbor at 1:01 a.m, "creating a potential public health risk." Read more.
A judge last week tossed a legal life preserver to a man who crashed his boat into a 40-foot-high marker in Boston Harbor, that left one passenger drowned, saying he could continue to make his case under federal maritime law that it's not his fault he plowed into the large fixed structure early one summer morning last year. Read more.
The T announced today it will start running ferries between Lewis Mall in East Boston and Long Wharf downtown on Monday. Read more.
Boston Timelapse captured what appears to be a lightning strike at Logan from a National Park Service camera atop the Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown. Read more.
Boston Police report officers on one of its harbor boats rescued a father and son whose boat sank off Graves Light Wednesday evening, leaving them treading water with just one life jacket and a floating cooler between them. Read more.
Update, 12/1/22: Maggioli voluntarily dismissed her suit.
A Revere woman who says she was just out for a nice day on the water with her husband is suing Boston Harbor Cruises for the injuries she says she suffered when the wake from its speeding Codzilla boat slammed into her much smaller Boston Whaler in 2019. Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that the state's environmental secretary went too far in approving a plan that would let developers replace the Aquarium garage and the James Hook seafood store with skyscrapers - not on the merits but because the legislature didn't give her specific permission to put her stamp on waterfront projects. Read more.
What part of the Emerald Tutu could look like. Source.
Researchers at Northeastern University are testing a way to protect Boston from storm surges caused by climate change by deploying thousands of biodegradable mats that would grow marsh grasses on top and seaweed below to absorb some of the energy from the surges before they could slam into Boston's low-lying areas. Read more.
Out at Deer Island, Matt Frank watched the USS Constitution fire a 21-gun salute off Castle Island this morning.
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