This week at the State House in Boston, lawmakers worked on setting themselves up for success for the new 2-year session.

House Democrats quietly hired a politically connected Boston law firm helmed by a former deputy state attorney general, ...

They pushed for bills that would improve air quality and increase climate education in public schools, among others.

Massachusetts senators and the Office of the State Auditor faced off Tuesday in a tense meeting about a legislative audit.

The legislation is designed both fund the system, which has run out of money, and to also dramatically shrink the number of ...

The bill would still need a vote from the majority-Democrat state Senate and Democratic Gov. Maura Healey before it could ...

Black men and women, who serve at the highest levels of Massachusetts state government, gather at State House to discuss service, progress and what remains to be done.

Massachusetts state senators are expected to vote on a bill that would dole out $425 million to keep the state's emergency ...

BOSTON — The House on Thursday approved $425 million to replenish ... that's taking in thousands and thousands and thousands of folks from outside the state of Massachusetts, a simple CORI check isn't ...

There isn’t much state budget writers can do to prepare for the potential suspension of federal revenue bolstering the Bay ...

A big increase in homelessness last year means Massachusetts now has the fifth-largest homeless population of any state in ...