Massachusetts voters approved a ballot law Tuesday giving the state auditor the explicit authority to audit the Legislature, ...

Massachusetts students will no longer have to pass the MCAS exam to earn a diploma in Massachusetts.

The campaign opposed to phasing out the current tipped-wage structure and increasing the pay for waiters and bartenders to the minimum wage declared victory in the fight over Question 5 around 11 p.m.

Locally, two precincts in Dorchester’s Neponset section lined up with the Republican choice, while the vast majority of Bostonians— roughly 76 percent according to the city’s Election Department— ...

A state-run commission charged with planning major fixes to the Morrissey Boulevard corridor is facing increased criticism this week from a key constituency that wants the Healey administration and ...

When the City Council voted on Oct. 30 to approve Mayor Wu’s compromise over tax rate adjustments, the political conversation was already shifting from meeting a short-term deadline to wrestling with ...

The Boston Police Department reports arresting one of two men they say ran from officers investigating a report of men with guns behind the Joseph Lee K-8 School on Talbot Avenue in Dorchester on ...

As rush-hour traffic piled up at the always busy Adams Village intersection last Wednesday afternoon, restaurant owners and ...

He fled Haiti as a teenager amid the turmoil of the 1990s, following the first coup against then-President Jean-Bertrand ...

There is reason for excitement for customers of the Fields Corner library, as a brand-new branch should be in place in about ...

Secretary of State William Galvin speaks to reporters in the State House Library on Monday about Tuesday's election. The state's top elections official anticipates record voter turnout in ...

A forum held in Roxbury’s Nubian Square last week took a look at the role of Black male voters in the presidential election ...