By Chris Van Buskirk Renters and housing advocates rallied outside the state capitol Thursday, urging the Legislature to restore a temporary ban on evictions that expired...
By Matt Murphy State House News Service OCT. 18, 2021…..Former Gov. Deval Patrick tried repeatedly without success to tax soda and voters in 2010 rejected higher...
By Katie Lannan State House News Service One former client of The Open Door, a hunger relief agency on the North Shore, would buy a big...
By Katie Lannan The National Guard will now help students get to school in thirteen school districts across Massachusetts, after state public safety officials on Thursday...
Matt Murphy/SHNS The coalition of advocates fighting to amplify the voices of minority voting groups in the latest round of redistricting released a proposed map of...
By Chris Lisinski More than four years after her younger brother, Michael, was shot and killed in Boston, Rep. Liz Miranda is preparing for the trial...
Chris Lisinski/SHNS The federal government is revving up to redistribute some unspent rental aid it steered to states during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Massachusetts hopes to...
By Meg McIntyre Special to the State House News Service Earlier this year, Fall River firefighters responded to the scene of an opioid overdose. As they...
By Matt Murphy State House News Service Despite the Legislature in 2021 increasing cash assistance benefits for the first time in more than 20 years, legislators...
By Matt Murphy State House News Service Despite the Legislature in 2021 increasing cash assistance benefits for the first time in more than 20 years, legislators...