Mayoral Race

The incoming mayor of Framingham, Massachusetts, was hospitalized on Friday, supporters said in a statement Saturday. Mayor-elect Charlie Sisitsky was admitted to a hospital with an infection just days after winning Tuesday’s mayoral race, according to a statement from the Sisitsky Committee. “Mayor-Elect Sisitsky was admitted to the hospital last evening. He was experiencing complications from a routine medical...

In a landslide victory, Michelle Wu will become the mayor of Boston.

Jacquetta Van Zandt and Marcela García discuss the challenges the next mayor of Boston will face as she rolls out her administration on NBC10 Boston and NECN’s live election night special.

One has vowed to uphold the city’s new vaccine mandate. Another has vowed to repeal it. And that’s hardly their only point of contrast.

The Boston Globe’s Shirley Leung is on the business beat looking at new COVID vaccine rollout plans for boosters and kids. Plus, Mayor Kim Janey’s big move on Mass. and Cass and developments in the race to be the city’s next mayor.

Hours after Boston’s mayor announced a public health crisis over addiction, homelessness and other issues relating to the area known as Mass. and Cass, the two women vying to run the city next sounded off on their plans for the area. Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George both backed Mayor Kim Janey’s move at Tuesday’s mayoral debate hosted by...

Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu is currently leading her opponent and fellow City Councilor Annissa Essaibi George by 32 points in the race for mayor, a new poll shows. Less than three weeks from the November election, Wu’s support among those polled stands at 57%, a significant advantage compared to Essaibi’s 25%. Sixteen percent of voters remain undecided, according to…

The Boston mayoral race will be held in three weeks, and Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George are pulling together their coalitions.

Boston Mayor Kim Janey has backed Michelle Wu to succeed her, giving the city councilor one of the most high-profile endorsements in the mayoral election so far. Janey appeared with Wu at a campaign endorsement event at Roxbury’s Nubian Square Saturday. “We have so much more to do. It is why I am endorsing Michelle Wu,” Janey said. Wu...

Whoever wins Boston’s mayoral race on Nov. 2 won’t have much time to prepare. The two candidates are City Councilors Annissa Essaibi George and Michelle Wu. They met Thursday with Mayor Kim Janey to discuss the timeline. The three agreed on a transfer of power on Nov. 16. That’s just two weeks after the election. Janey was sworn in...

Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George are racing to the finish of the Boston mayoral race, but whatever their political disagreements, they’re not making the election political.

After Andrea Campbell and Kim Janey came up short in the preliminary Boston mayoral election, some locals talked about a lost opportunity while others said they expect greater efforts from the remaining two candidates.

Political analyst Jaquetta Van Zandt discusses potential strategies for mayoral candidates Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George as they move on to the general election.

City Councilor Annissa Essaibi George took a shot at her opponent while greeting residents at Mike’s Diner in Boston’s South End Wednesday, the morning after she declared victory in Boston’s mayoral preliminary election.

Democrat Michelle Wu spoke briefly Wednesday morning as she greeted commuters at the Forest Hills T station, emerging as the top vote-getter in a runoff election for the next mayor of Boston.

Mayor Kim Janey’s campaign initially said she would not be conceding Tuesday night, telling supporters to go home and wait for additional results. But shortly after midnight, her campaign put out a statement conceding to City Councilors Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George.

The final round of the Boston mayoral race appeared set early Wednesday morning, as results trickled in from a preliminary election to winnow the field of hopefuls down to two. City Councilors Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George told supporters Tuesday night they were the top two vote-getters, despite a small number of votes officially tallied.

City Councilor Annissa Essaibi George declared victory in Boston’s mayoral preliminary election Tuesday night, despite an incomplete number of votes officially tallied.

City Councilor Michelle Wu told supporters Tuesday night she was among the top two vote-getters, despite a small number of votes officially tallied