In recent decades, American presidential elections have been decided by a small handful of swing states — places where the ...

In 2020, there were just three states where older adults outnumbered children—Maine, Vermont and Florida—but in 2024, this ...

The town's health department says an elderly woman with mental health and hoarding issues owns and lives in the unit. It was ...

"They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law," then-Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the June 26, 2015, ...

177 communities across eastern Massachusetts are under pressure to rezone parts of town to allow more multi-family housing near public transportation, thanks to the MBTA Communities Act. Not all ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday put off ruling on a second Black majority congressional district in Louisiana, instead ordering new arguments in the fall.

Bills now before the Massachusetts Legislature look to level the playing field for the state's rural school districts, which ...

Democrats hoped the Wisconsin Supreme Court would revisit the congressional lines after it ordered state legislative ...

Boston just approved new liquor licenses for 21 new and established restaurants and bars around the city. Here's where you ...

Canadian wildfire smoke is making the air hazy in Massachusetts Wednesday. The air quality is expected to be in the moderate levels Wednesday. Smoke is expected to start clearing out Wednesday night.

A group of states, school districts, and teachers’ unions on Friday afternoon urged the Supreme Court in two separate filings to leave in place an order by a federal judge in Massachusetts that ...

Click here for an interactive map showing state-owned land that's being developed for housing. There are more than 1,500 housing units on state land in the pipeline right now.