A woman was shot in the ankle at 8 Rev. Burke St. in the Old Colony development off Dorchester Street in South Boston around 8:05 p.m.

The woman was transported to a local hospital with injuries not considered life threatening.

BostonTimelapse looked out of his South Boston window towards the Blue Hills Reservation around 7:50 tonight and saw the red-hued smoke from brush fires in the park. He reports that an hour later, the fires, or at least the glow from them, had died down. Read more.

A 16-year-old was arraigned today on charges he opened fire on the Red Line platform at Broadway during rush hour last Friday, sending one man to the hospital with gunshot wounds to his thigh, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

WS Development is working to re-open District Hall at 75 Northern Ave. in the Seaport, but with a new name and with a mission that will include offering space to non-profit and community groups that have nothing to do with tech, now that the Innovation District turned Seaport is an actual neighborhood. Read more.

WBUR reports a group at UMass Boston is experimenting with adding honeycomb-like structures to seawalls along Chelsea Creek in East Boston and on Boston Harbor in the Seaport to see if they will become refuges for both plants and shellfish, turning what are now basically barren stone walls into greener spaces full of life.

In the year since city police and public-works crews cleared out a growing encampment of homeless people and drug users on Atkinson Street, Mass and Cass has seen a significant decrease in crime and quality-of-life problems, officials from Boston's police and public-health departments told city councilors at a hearing by the council's committee on public safety and criminal justice. Read more.

UNITE HERE Local 26 reports that unionized workers at the Omni Parker House and Omni Boston Seaport hotels today ratified new contracts and voted to return to work tomorrow. Read more.

The Boston Licensing Board today approved a plan by the owners of the now defunct Worden Hall, 22-26 West Broadway in South Boston, to sell their liquor license to the owner of an Indian restaurant in Norwood, who plans to open up shop in the space. Read more.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to replace a former T-Mobile store at 471 West Broadway in South Boston's Perkins Square with a Playa Bowl outlet that serves dishes featuring such tropical offerings as açaí, pitaya and coconut, as well as smoothies for people who prefer their tropical tastes in more liquid forms. Read more.

The South Boston Lithuanian Citizens Association yesterday asked a judge to deny a request by two neighbors that he shut it down immediately, saying that even if they could make the case that events and patrons at the group's West Broadway home were excessively noisy and rowdy - which it says they can't - the harm to the association would far outweigh any problems the couple is having. Read more.