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After more than a year of heavy battling over the 3A housing law in Winthrop, the president of the Town Council, Jim Letterie, is ready to vote in favor of…

The expected shifts in Winthrop’s bus routes to better cover Point Shirley and reach the Beachmont station reflect advocacy and equity more than ridership numbers, MBTA officials said in outlining…

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, outlining a long-awaited proposal for redesigning town bus service, has agreed to keep Winthrop’s service to Point Shirley after an extensive lobbying campaign by residents…

The vice president of the Winthrop Town Council, Suzanne Swope, is floating the idea of using artificial intelligence in municipal government operations, saying it could help produce new ideas and…

The Winthrop School Committee and the union representing the town’s teachers ratified their new three-year contracts, reached after nearly a year of negotiations. The agreements are retroactive to last summer,…

Winthrop’s families and its fire station felt new repercussions from the Town Council’s defiance of the state’s 3A housing law, losing an established town program for parents and their children,…

Sean Brewer, a habitual criminal with convictions involving drugs and violence, was arraigned Tuesday in tears for what he described as the accidental shooting death of his wife on Sunday…

The weekend shooting death in Winthrop involved a husband fatally firing a gun at his wife, apparently during an argument in her apartment, prosecutors said. The victim was 47-year-old Jacklyn…

A woman was killed Sunday in an apparent shooting at an apartment building in Winthrop, reportedly amid a loud argument, and another person known to her was detained in the…

The Winthrop Town Council rejected the idea that it allow the immediate consideration of agenda items at the request of at least four members, in a stalled challenge of the…

The Massachusetts attorney general is promising a review of Marblehead’s attempt at technical compliance with the 3A housing law, raising new legal and political complications for Winthrop’s own defiant position.…

After a year of talks, the Winthrop School Committee and the union representing its teachers reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract offering annual average raises of about…

Winthrop teachers have berated the town’s School Committee for halting contract negotiations, saying that a decision to retreat from talks nearly a year into the process will only delay a…

Eleven months into contract talks with the town’s teacher union, the Winthrop School Committee is described by the union as seeking intervention by state mediators, after saying it has reached…