Court-appointed attorneys say an agreement reached with Massachusetts lawmakers is a "critical starting point" toward ending ...

One Massachusetts location will be included in the sale of 119 JCPenney stores to a Boston-based private equity firm later ...

The actor supports a bill that would ban research institutions and product testing facilities from separating infant primates from their mothers in the first year of their lives.

Massachusetts lawmakers say they have a deal to increase pay for bar advocates, which they hope will end a work stoppage that forced the dismissal of numerous criminal cases.

About 85% of federal detainees held by ICE in Plymouth County this year have been classified as “no ICE threat” by the agency ...

The highest ranking Democrat in the Mass. Senate said a proposal that would largely ban the use of cell phones in public school classrooms addresses the “greatest distraction device ever ...

The Eastern equine encephalitis virus has been detected in mosquitoes in Bridgewater, town officials said Wednesday.

The issue is politically fraught, but don't law-abiding citizens have a right to live without stepping over needles or ...

Massachusetts lawmakers say they have a deal to increase pay for bar advocates, but the attorneys say it "falls far short." ...

California's suit contends that Trump’s signature tax law is unconstitutionally vague and requires states to violate Planned ...

Family members of the 67 people killed in a January midair collision in Washington, D.C. are attending a three-day hearing being held by the National Transportation Safety Board, where several new ...

Holyoke Water Works shared at approximately 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday that a water main break occurred on George Street at the ...