Last week, the M as sachusetts Supreme Judicial Court enacted the Lavallee Protocol, which requires poor criminal defendants to be released if they have not had an appointed attorney for more than ...

Gov. Maura Healey is out of town this week after quickly signing the yearly budget into law Friday and making clear she was ...

Healey's last official act was to sign the $60.9 billion state budget for Fiscal Fear 2026 into law on Friday and attend the ...

Defendants including some charged with serious crimes have begun being released in Massachusetts amid a dispute over pay for ...

We are heading for a crisis where families who once had shelter and services will be driven into deeper instability.

Late last week, as you were getting ready to pack the car and head for the beach, the Healey administration announced that it had awarded $2 million in grants to 59 organizations across the state to ...

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Gov. Maura Healey said her budget office is ready to slash millions in legislative earmarks for local projects and will seek the extraordinary power to cut spending across ...

This Independence Day may feel different for many Americans. Around the country, there are protests planned against Trump’s ...

The Rev. Diane Badger, the administrator of the American Baptist Church of Massachusetts who oversees the archive, teamed up ...

More than 60 years after a white supremacist assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, his daughter still sees the same ...

Massachusetts lawmakers sent a $61 billion budget to Gov. Maura Healey Monday that requires residential brokers’ fees to be covered by the party that enlists those services and boosts the ...