The Legislature passed a law in the spring setting a nine-month limit. But state officials say they want to lower the cap to ...

In my practice, I witness daily how life in the digital age impacts our youth’s mental health. As a social worker and member of the Springfield City Council, I am concerned to see young members of our ...

WINCHESTER - In the 1800s, Asa Fletcher created a fund “for the poor of Winchester.” Thanks to that fund, Marcia Chase Rice was able to live in her home until ...

WASHINGTON — House Democrats and anti-death penalty advocates pressed Wednesday for President Joe Biden to save the lives of ...

The bill Governor Maura Healey signed into law Wednesday stands to benefit BlueHub Capital, a Roxbury-based nonprofit that ...

The measure would ease access to identification for all residents without stable housing as well as the formerly incarcerated ...

Teachers from three striking unions have gathered on the steps of the Massachusetts Statehouse to ask lawmakers and ...

Democratic attorneys general across the country are readying their legal defenses against the incoming Trump administration, ...

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has overturned a 65-year-old rule that required judges to identify and give engagement rings to the wronged party in a break-up. “More than six decades ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – This week at the State House in Boston, all eyes were on the presidential election and preparations for the next four years. Massachusetts lawmakers on what might change after ...

BOSTON ― More than four months after different versions of a multibillion-dollar economic development bond bill were passed by both branches of the Massachusetts Legislature and sent to conference ...

Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Maura Healey says that her state police will "absolutely not" be cooperating with the expected mass deportation effort by the incoming Trump administration ...