By Colin A. Young State House News Service DEC. 7, 2021…..Ever since the state’s Office of the Child Advocate reported that the Department of Children and...
By Chris Lisinski State House News Service Lawmakers have just a month left to overcome a disagreement about how to update an animal welfare law before...
December 3, 2021 – BOSTON – Today, the Massachusetts Legislature passed a $4 billion bill that directs federal American Rescue Plan Act funding to assist the...
By Matt Murphy and Sam Doran Democrats in the U.S. Senate took a major step forward toward confirmation of Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins to...
Katie Lannan A Fall River Democrat vying to unseat long-serving Bristol Sheriff Thomas Hodgson got a hand from some state lawmakers this week as he raised...
By Matt Murphy House and Senate leaders said Tuesday night that they had struck a deal to spend $4 billion in American Rescue Plan Act and...
By Matt Murphy State House News Service STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, DEC. 1, 2021…..Gov. Charlie Baker, a two-term Republican who at his peak was one of the...
Chris Lisinski/SHNS A day after Gov. Charlie Baker said Massachusetts may “soon” deploy a digital COVID-19 vaccine passport similar to those in use in other states,...
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is looking for answers from energy companies who she says are gaming the system by raising natural gas prices...
Sam Doran SHNS Before gaveling out for a long Thanksgiving weekend, the Senate sent Gov. Charlie Baker bills affecting affordable housing in Ipswich, the Woburn Public...