Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and five Democratic governors pressed Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer during a phone call this week to slow the confirmation march of President Donald Trump’s ...

They’re doing God’s work,” U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-8th District, said of the state-run Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children.

Gov. Maura Healey filed legislation Friday that would allow cities and towns to hike taxes on hotel stays and meals, an ...

Among those provisions are three tax proposals that could collectively generate more than $150 million in new annual tax ...

The law applies to 350 municipalities in Massachusetts. Boston is exempt, and is pursuing its own city-specific ADU policy.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey blasted President Donald Trump’s decision to implement a 25% tariff on goods coming into the U.S. from Canada and Mexico and a 10% tariff on goods from China on ...

A top Senate Democrat expressed skepticism toward Gov. Maura Healey’s plan to boost state spending by 7.4% in fiscal year ...

On January 9, Governor Maura Healey signed An Act Prohibiting Inhumane Feline Declawing (S.2552) into law. The law bans cat declawing in Massachusetts, exc ...

Gov. Maura Healey said her legislation to tax candy sales was just "an idea" as she talked about the Bay State's revenue ...

Governor Maura Healey proposed significant new changes to the state’s Right to Shelter law, including imposing a statutory residency requirement for families and strengthening criminal background ...

Massachusetts students had the highest average cumulative score across all four test areas (fourth grade math and reading, and eighth grade math and reading) as well as scoring the best in each ...