Legislators are offering Healey some bulwarks against federal or economic upheaval. Negotiators scaled back their original ...

Votebeat reports that delays in implementing REAL ID reveal potential challenges for proof-of-citizenship laws in voting, ...

Gov. Maura Healey approved a $60.9 billion annual budget and rolled out a proposal to empower her administration with greater ...

The Supreme Court justices gave an ominous prelude to next term, when voting rights — another pillar of a strong democracy — ...

Preliminary 2024 state statistics show continued progress in enhancing public safety and reducing crime across Massachusetts. According to early data submitted to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting ...

Between her spending cuts and changes that legislative negotiators made to cushion against financial strain, the final budget ...

Triumphant Trump poised for “big, beautiful” bill signing Jobs data surprises amid slowing economy SCOTUS to weigh ban on ...

A proposal to develop a long-empty “Pit” has returned to Somerville’s Teele Square, now a political issue in City Council ...

Plus, a military analysis contradicts Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's reason for halting a U.S. weapons shipment to Ukraine, ...

In Chief Justice John Roberts’s opening statement at his confirmation hearing, he explained that judges are like baseball umpires. “Umpires don’t make the rules,” he said. Their job is “to call balls ...

MORGANTOWN — Residents opposed to President Donald Trump’s budget bill tried one last time to get Rep. Riley Moore to hear their voices before he voted Thursday on the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill.’ However, ...

On a festive July 4, Adela Imul Adjanel shared a sobering reason for becoming a citizen of the United States. “Just to be safe,” she said. “I don’t give anyone any reason to send me home.” Adjanel, ...