While experts dissected the state's health care woes exacerbated by the Steward crisis Thursday, House Speaker Ron Mariano took a dim view of the possibility of top Democrats ...

After voters overwhelmingly voted to eliminate the requirement that high school students pass the MCAS exam in order to ...

This week at the State House in Boston, lawmakers worked on several omnibus bills and looked at potential changes to new laws created by the passage of ballot questions.

Outgoing Los Angeles district attorney George Gascon filed more than 600 pages of documents showing the brothers to be “model ...

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

Massachusetts' long-awaited clean energy bill speeds up the siting process and directs utilities to solicit at least 5,000 MW ...

Both Spilka and Mariano were quick to point out that the majority-Democrat House and Senate had pretty well cleared the decks ...

Massachusetts officials have won more than $1 billion in transportation funding for key projects. That money could be ...

The bill’s passage arrived later than planned, but it is a shot in the arm to environmental advocates who have feared a ...

In other news, University of Illinois nurses strike; Baystate Health makes leadership cuts; St. Louis University tackles a lack of palliative care; and more.

In some Massachusetts communities, the local government is one of the biggest property owners. That land could be key to ...

Democrats plan next week to finish their work on a stalled jobs bill designed to supercharge the state’s economy, especially ...