A backlash to standardized tests has been fueled by complaints they take up too much classroom time and questions about how ...

After months of delay, the Legislature sent a major clean energy bill to Gov. Maura Healey’s desk amid shifting national ...

California, the most populous state in the country, is leading efforts to protect rights ahead of the president-elect’s ...

Massachusetts state officials are making a sudden U-turn, months after threatening to revoke the commercial driver’s licenses ...

Mass. State Police have released new video into an incident where a suspect reportedly threw an axe at a police cruiser ...

Massachusetts Democrat Seth Moulton isn’t the only congressman receiving blowback for saying that biological males and ...

The House of Representatives is proposing an alternative path to allowing the state auditor to examine the finances of the ...

If signed into law by Gov. Maura Healey, the new bill will promote energy storage and allow for longer-term contracts for ...

Praising his "wealth of experience in correctional management" and "forward-looking vision," Healey's office said Friday the ...

The House and Senate both accepted a conference committee report that emerged Tuesday night recommending $3.96 billion in ...

The new approach from state leaders reflects the markedly different political reality Democrats face heading into Trump’s ...

A Republican who unsuccessfully ran for a South Shore and Cape Cod Senate seat turned to a Boston court this month in an effort to overturn the results of her Republican primary election this fall, a ...