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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Drought Monitor currently classifies just over 66% of the state as being in a severe drought covering most of the ...

A long-sought plan to build a new soccer-specific stadium for the New England Revolution along the banks of the Mystic River in Everett crossed the goal line on Thursday, as state lawmakers sent a ...

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