PLAYING IT SAFE — On the campaign trail, Mayor Michelle Wu has touted Boston’s low homicide rate. The city saw the lowest ...

Relevant precedent: 21 years ago bar advocates in Hampden County stopped taking on new cases and got a $20-an-hour raise — ...

The Republican-authored bill will cost the state's health care system $1.75 billion and take away health care for 250,000 ...

According to the lawsuit, the plan, which was created by Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch, "promotes one religion over others, and ...

A group of contracted public defenders in Massachusetts have declared they won’t take new clients until they see a pay raise.

Nine northeastern states announced they were embarking on a groundbreaking interregional electric grid transmission effort.

Budget formulation begins with the governor’s draft in January. The House passes its own version, which happened in April, and then the Senate passed theirs, which happened just last week.

While the impacts of the U.S. House GOP’s tax and funding cuts legislation come into focus, the group that represents the state’s hospitals said this week it is closely monitoring ...

A lot happens in Boston every day. To help you keep up, WBUR, Boston's NPR News station, pulled these stories together just ...

Massachusetts state lawmakers are expected to begin the long process of merging the House and Senate budget proposals. Here ...

The Massachusetts Senate’s version of the state budget for the year that begins July 1 sets aside $107.2 million for ...

Drafts of the next Massachusetts budget have cleared the House and Senate. They now move to a six-person conference committee ...