As state lawmakers pared back spending in their budget proposal, they left nearly $171 million in earmarks largely unscathed, ...

Beacon Hill Democrats largely cleared their plates this past month of major priorities that had shaped the early part of ...

It's less clear what reception the proposal will get across the hall. House Speaker Ron Mariano has said that he recognizes ...

Executives at Massachusetts’ powerful health care and insurance worlds led a cadre of donors who funneled money to the ...

State officials said that federal education grants that were expected to arrive July 1 are now instead under review “to make ...

It might be too late for parents to dream about a screen-free summer for their kids, but the Massachusetts Senate is moving ...

The Massachusetts Senate is moving forward on a bill to ban cellphone use in all Massachusetts schools. The Joint Education ...

More than a quarter-century after voters revoked the right to vote from Bay Staters incarcerated on felonies, the ...

Trump's so-called "big, beautiful" bill extends the tax cuts Republicans passed in 2017, and includes new spending on defense ...

State officials said Monday that $108 million in federal education grants that were expected to arrive July 1 are now instead ...

Massachusetts' highest court is imposing a legal protocol that could result in hundreds of criminal defendants being set free ...

The growing fallout from a public defender work stoppage could now set criminal defendants free across Massachusetts.