CONVENES: The Senate convened at 11:24 a.m. with Sen. Crighton presiding.  The News Service features gavel-to-gavel summaries ...

Treasurer Deb Goldberg accused President Donald Trump of playing a "game" with tariffs Wednesday, as she joined alcoholic ...

BOSTON, Sept. 17, 2026.....Roughly three-quarters of spending on GLP-1 drugs in Massachusetts was for weight loss in 2025, ...

MassHealth has its eyes on January 2027, when it now anticipates that closer to 310,000 members in Massachusetts will be ...

Massachusetts has never had an issue with presidential electors swapping their allegiance at the last minute, but lawmakers ...

Without signals that legislative negotiators are close to agreement on a long-debated energy affordability bill and as some ...

The World Cup gave Boston a test case for an argument Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and other municipal officials have made for ...

In the wake of the Lindsay Clancy trial that sparked nationwide conversations about maternal mental healthcare, Gov. Maura ...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on Monday proposed temporary tax relief in an effort to trigger new housing production and related ...

A new federal report shows that roughly 9% of Massachusetts residents are in poverty, a rate that it describes as being "significantly lower" than in 20 other states and the ...

The MBTA's slowest bus routes are getting slower on average, but the transit agency is doing a better job of not leaving long gaps in service by "bunching" buses so ...

As talk of the apocalypse drives new calls for regulation of artificial intelligence and with federal lawmakers increasingly ...