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 ...

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

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 ...

The latest entrant in a national wave of policymakers enacting health care market oversight laws that have a significant ...

Gov. Maura Healey is the latest public official to vocally criticize vessel speed restrictions proposed for Nantucket Sound ...

Democratic Gov. Maura Healey said the goal of a new oversight law is to prevent "bad actors [who] exploit vulnerable hospitals." Meanwhile, a Virginia hospital faces health care fraud charges; San ...

The hospital oversight law creates a task force focused on improving primary care access, delivery and financial stability, a ...