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The transition from summer into fall means Boston can ramp up public safety efforts at Mass. and Cass, the epicenter of the city’s opioid crisis, Mayor Michelle Wu said Wednesday. Wu, discussing the apparent improvements in the area recently, said that large events over the summer may have required temporarily redirecting police officers away from Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea...

The tents that serve as homes for more than 130 people in the troubled area of Boston known as Mass. and Cass are set to be removed on Wednesday.

The president of the Boston City Council is calling for an investigation after a toddler was found staying in the Mass. and Cass area last week. Boston police said they were told about the 2-year-old boy by an outreach worker on Friday morning. A woman was reportedly with the child on Southhampton Street. A police report said the mother and…

Councilor Erin Murphy, who has been calling for an emergency declaration, has invited a group of officials — including members of the health commission and first responders — to participate in Tuesday’s hearing. She said she also plans to call for a vote and declare a state of emergency.

Boston city leaders discussed the ongoing situation at Mass. and Cass — the intersection at the crossroads of the South End, Southie and Roxbury that has long been the epicenter of the region’s addiction and homelessness crises — during a hearing Tuesday. Boston City Council’s Committee on Public Health, Homelessness and Recovery held the hearing following a Public Health Commission…

Four Boston City Councilors are calling on the Public Health Commission to declare a state of emergency at Massachusetts Avenue and Melaena Cass Boulevard, warning that the level of sex trafficking, drug abuse and violence in the neighborhood has reached the point of needing a “dramatic intervention.” Councilors Erin Murphy, Frank Baker, Ed Flynn and Michael Flaherty wrote a letter…

Four Boston City Councilors are calling on the Public Health Commission to declare a state of emergency at Massachusetts Avenue and Melaena Cass Boulevard, warning that the level of sex trafficking, drug abuse and violence in the neighborhood has reached the point of needing a “dramatic intervention.”

Councilors Erin Murphy, Frank Baker, Ed Flynn and Michael Flaherty signed the letter, asking that the Boston Public Health Commission take a vote to declare a state of emergency at their Sept. 13 meeting. The councilors believe that would provide more flexibility to the ongoing situation in that area.

Just a day after Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced new measures to combat growing violence at the Mass. and Cass section of the city, a city councilor was mugged in the area and had her phone snatched right out of her hand, according to the Boston Globe. Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson told the Globe in an interview that…

Mayor Wu is introducing an ordinance to remove tents and tarps from Mass. and Cass gradually.

Violence has been on the rise in the Mass. and Cass area, though, with the area becoming dangerous enough that even outreach workers are not feeling comfortable anymore.

With plans for a substance abuse treatment center on Boston Harbor’s Long Island still years from becoming a reality, city leaders announced more immediate efforts to ease the ongoing crisis at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard on Friday. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Police Commissioner Michael Cox, Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden and other officials...

Wu hopes to have the 3,300-foot bridge reopened within four years, saying that the city has already set aside $38 million to rehabilitate the existing buildings on the island, and an additional $81 million for rebuilding the bridge.