The governor’s second so-called Municipal Empowerment Act would allow cities and towns to increase local taxes on meals, ...

CABINET BATTLE — Sen. Elizabeth Warren is doubling down on her efforts to keep Robert F. Kennedy Jr. out of President Donald ...

Municipal leaders have used existing local option taxes to raise money for affordable housing and to dodge property tax ...

Representing the largest proposed infrastructure investments in Massachusetts' public higher education system in decades, ...

There were no roll calls in the House or Senate last week. When the 2024 legislative session ended on Jan. 1, thousands of ...

Shortly after the new year began, Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill making Feb. 4 a day to set aside in honor of civil rights icon Rosa Parks in Massachusetts. The bill’s initiator, ...

BOSTON — Massachusetts property owners now have a right to build accessory dwelling units or so-called in-law apartments in single-family zoning districts across most of the state, under a law ...