The state has been conducting searches for sex offenses and outstanding warrants — but not checks of past criminal activity.

Pro-immigrant nonprofits, organizers, and politicians from across the state are bracing for a second Trump presidency as they ...

It will soon officially be illegal to declaw a cat in Massachusetts. Gov. Maura Healey signed legislation Thursday that bans ...

A Republican state senator backed by a coalition of gun rights advocates plans to file a suite of bills this month that ...

The Mass. Supreme Judicial Court sided with the state on towns being required to offer multi-unit zoning. Holden is still ...

The blue state recorded 316 'serious incident' reports at hotels, congregate sites, scattered sites and co-shelters within ...

The act helps when it comes to treating people affected by substance use more humanely,” said South County Recovery Center ...

The Herald obtained the “Serious Incident Reports Tracker Data” through a public records request. Because the state withheld ...

Maura Healey is requesting a moment of silence on Thursday to honor the life of former President Jimmy Carter.

The grants include funding for McGrath Highway in Somerville, station improvements at JFK/UMass in Boston and electric ...