Massachusetts’ second-largest city voted to become a sanctuary for transgender people — one of the first in the country to do ...

T he city council in Worchester, Massachusetts voted overwhelmingly Tuesday night to make the state’s second-largest city a sanctuary for transgender and gender-diverse people.

From the humble potato to the towering Douglas fir, poets hoping to write about our state have plenty to work with.

Maura Healey on Monday signed an executive order creating a position of poet laureate in Massachusetts for the first time.

Even though Maine already has 31 official state symbols — including a soil type, soft drink, fossil and insect — there seems to be a tendency to focus on what we don't have. Take for example two ...

Three new state symbols are proposed this year – reptile, amphibian and dog – which would bring Maine's total to 34.

Massachusetts’s students are back to being the top in the U.S. for all categories in a test known as the “Nation’s Report ...

"Officials here follow the law. We are not a sanctuary state," Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey told reporters when she was asked about new immigration policy from President Trump at a news ...

Gov. Maura Healey plans to close a state-operated public health hospital in Canton, her administration confirmed Tuesday afternoon. The Massachusetts Nurses Association, which first disclosed the ...

All told, Massachusetts’ top elected official spent all or parts of at least 76 days out of state during 2024 — the equivalent of 2½ months — far exceeding her total from the year before ...

The Massachusetts Senator held a roundtable with other state officials Tuesday to discuss President Trump’s political agenda and the implications it could have on the commonwealth over the next ...