With the 2021 campaign to be Boston’s next mayor just heating up, the 2022 race to be Massachusetts governor is also now officially underway. Ben Downing, a 39-year-old Democrat and former state ...

Just 31 of the state’s 160 representatives in the House are Republican and in the Senate, the margin is even wider. Just four of the state’s 40 senators are Republicans.

First-term Massachusetts State Representative Jake Oliveira is looking to move up to the State Senate. The Democrat from Ludlow has launched a campaign for the seat being given up by State Senator ...

Nantucket residents are blasting state Sen. Julian Cyr, D-Cape and Islands, for leaving a Select Board meeting that addressed Vineyard Wind, but the senator is connecting his departure to travel lo… ...

Massachusetts lawmaker proposes legislation to regulate drones 02:03. BOSTON - When the sun goes down lately, eyes go up - looking for drones in the sky following reports of an inundation of the ...

In one of the few contested State Senate races in Massachusetts, Democratic incumbent John Velis defeated Republican John Cain in the 2 nd Hampden and Hampshire District.

FILE – Massachusetts state Sen. Bill Owens, D-Boston, center, speaks during a news conference on City Hall Plaza, in Boston, April 6, 1976, the day after the assault on Ted Landsmark at an anti ...

Politics Bill Owens, Massachusetts’ first Black state senator, dies He was first elected to the state House in 1972 and served two stints in the Senate starting in 1974 until 1992.