Even before Gov. Maura Healey entered the heart of campaign season — one that has been defined by skyrocketing energy costs ...

Given recent AI hacking incidents, CommonWealth Beacon checked back in with state officials to see how they’re protecting resident data flowing through an AI assistant. Here’s what you need to know.

Elizabeth Warren and John Deaton. MASSACHUSETTS VOTERS are poised to return Elizabeth Warren to the US Senate, according to a new poll. Warren, a 75-year-old Cambridge Democrat and national voice of ...

THE MBTA’S campaign to replace the entire Red and Orange Line fleets with brand-new subway cars might be old enough to enroll in high school by the time it’s completed. T officials on Thursday ...

Community colleges, with their enrollment buoyed by tuition-free policies in recent years, "remain the largest source of new transfers at the state universities," said Mario Delci, associate ...

For the first time since Barack Obama was president, Massachusetts did not land in dead last in Ballotpedia's biennial ...

CommonWealth Beacon's live debate on ballot Question 3 at Northern Essex Community College Haverhill Campus. (Leise Jones/CommonWealth Beacon) PERHAPS THE MOST controversial of the nine ballot ...

Ballots are already printed with Oliver's name next to Minogue's as a joint ticket, and over 200,000 voters have already cast ...

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

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