House members of the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security will have until Friday afternoon to vote in an ...

Yet year after year, the Legislature ranks among the least productive and least transparent in the country, with competitive ...

The state is losing residents. Its economy is struggling. Is that enough for a Republican rival to beat an incumbent Democrat ...

In the span of a few hours last week, Phil Eng switched roles in front of lawmakers without ever leaving the witness table.

In January 1777, as Lavinia Dean prepared to marry John Fisk, the Stockbridge Congregational Church appointed a panel of deacons to investigate the matter of the widow and the schoolmaster.

The PETS Act will prevent inhumane treatment of animals in Massachusetts by banning puppy and kitten sales at pet shops to end commercial breeding facilities, also known as puppy mills. It also bans ...

Mass. Gov. Maura Healey on March 19 announced that she will file legislation to get rid of the state’s centuries-old ban on hunting on Sundays.

The Foxborough Select Board voted on March 17 to approve a license for the World Cup after weeks of tension that had put the event in jeopardy.

House leaders say they're planning to vote either this month or next on the bill, which would also block new agreements authorizing local law enforcement to act as immigration officers.

Massachusetts House lawmakers will vote this spring on legislation that bans warrantless civil immigration arrests at courthouses and prohibits local law enforcement officers from initiating contact ...

Two dozen states, along with more than a dozen cities and counties, sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, challenging the Trump administration’s repeal of a scientific finding that had ...