A developer has filed plans to convert and expand a former Boston Medical Center office building at 615 Albany St. into 24 residential units, through renovation of the existing floors and the addition of one new floor. Read more.

An annoyed citizen filed a 311 complaint tonight about the brighter than bright billboard at Albany Street and Frontage Road: Read more.

Stat reports that researchers at BU's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories on Albany Street- designed to study killer microorganisms - grafted the spike of an omicron variant of the virus onto one of the OG strains from Wuhan to see whether something on the spike was changing the virus's virulence. Read more.

Live Boston reports on a 1 a.m. stabbing on Albany Street, across from the Boston Medical Center ambulance bays. His attacker might have gotten slashed as well, if not to the extent of immediately needing the services inside the building.

The Zoning Board of Appeal, getting a little fed up with nine-unit development proposals that skirt the city minimum for affordable housing, today told a developer who wants to put up a nine-unit building on Albany Street in the South End to try to shrink some of the units so that he can fit in at least one that could be rented or sold as affordable. Read more.

Around 9:15 p.m. in the area of 774 Albany St. A bullet went through a window at 780 Albany St. A suspect was detained on Harrison Avenue near East Concord Street, on the other side of the BMC campus. Read more.

Live Boston reports Boston Police are investigating whether Wyse Richardson, charged with beating a senior Pompeii Street resident during a burglary late on Christmas Eve may have also attacked an EMT at Boston Medical Center about 15 minutes earlier. Read more.

Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man they say was standing outside Boston Health Care for the Homeless, 780 Albany St., Friday morning with salable amounts of fentanyl, crack and marijuana. Read more.

Boston Police report arresting Gerald Lenzel Bowens, 25, of Malden, on charges he ended an argument with Timothy Walton, 32, of Roxbury Wednesday night by repeatedly stabbing Walton at Massachusetts Avenue and Albany Street, just down the street from the Boston Medical Center emergency room. Read more.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved marijuana shops at 430-454 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall and 591 Albany St. in the South End.

In both cases, the approval does not mean the shops can actually open, only that they can now apply to the state Cannabis Control Commission, which would have to decide whether to grant licenses. Read more.