Prior to the announcement, Massachusetts was one of just three states, along with New Jersey and Pennsylvania, without a poet ...

Gov. Maura Healey says the sudden changes to President Trump's tariff plans for Canada, Mexico and China have caused ...

Massachusetts was one of only three states without a poet laureate, according to the Library of Congress, joined by New ...

After a violent year marked by multiple mass shootings in Alabama, Republican Gov. Kay Ivey and many lawmakers from both parties are backing a proposed ban on so-called Glock switches and other ...

There were no roll calls in the House or Senate last week. When the 2024 legislative session ended on Jan. 1, thousands of ...

A veteran lawmaker, state Senator Peter Durant twice flipped what had been Democratic districts to win a seat in the House ...

The Holyoke Police Department and the Hampden DA’s office are two of 18 recipients of the first funds awarded in Massachusetts through the Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program.

"“I think that the state of Massachusetts would be best served by someone who isn’t an extreme person on the right or the ...

Gov. Maura Healey’s top housing deputy met privately with Democratic senators on Wednesday to discuss funding for the emergency shelter system, which is projected to run out of ...

And on Friday, Markey led a resolution in the Senate opposing Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate ...

Tax cuts. Cutting red tape. Deregulation. Making life easier for businesses. Cracking down on free benefits for newly-arrived ...

A top House Democrat demanded Gov. Maura Healey’s administration cough up more information about the state-run emergency ...