Despite clear evidence that cannabis has had negative health effects in Massachusetts, our state has done little to survey ...

IF REPLACING single-family zoning with two-family zoning sounds like a major change for communities across Massachusetts, in this case one plus one could equal three. A provision included in the state ...

Gov. Maura Healey and Republican challenger Mike Minogue clashed over rising energy costs, abortion rights, and ...

A project already pockmarked with delays and growing costs will once again stretch on longer than MBTA officials hoped, this time due to federal scrutiny of components shipped from China.

The Healey administration said the funding will be used to improve on-time performance, reduce delays, and provide more ...

At Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill, Danielle Allen, a Harvard University professor who founded the group advancing Question 3, and Jordan Berg Powers, chair of Voter Rights MA, which is ...

The change, if implemented, would “dramatically and inaccurately favor southern states where many northern residents, sometimes called snowbirds, spend some or all of the months of December through ...

Roughly 55 percent of Massachusetts adults who have opioid use disorder and are enrolled in MassHealth will need to satisfy new federal work requirements outlined in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

The Tobin Bridge looms over homes in Chelsea. (Photo by Michael Jonas) CHELSEA IS JOINING a growing list of Massachusetts cities to consider whether the road to more housing runs through fewer parking ...

Regular people’s ability to sue businesses for the alleged violation of a law is called private right of action, and it is a necessary inclusion if the future Massachusetts data privacy law is to ...

MASSACHUSETTS PUBLIC SCHOOLS are entering an era of fewer children and students, but the causes and consequences of that decline look markedly different depending on where a district is located. In ...