Colin A. Young

Democrats who have been negotiating separate health care industry oversight and pharmaceutical drug reform bills for months announced Friday night that they resolved their differences and plan to put the bills up for votes next week in the final days of the two-year term.

Just less than half of the roughly 3.5 million voters who cast a ballot in November's elections here did so in person on Election Day, Secretary of

BOSTON — Households in the Greater Boston area spent an average of $101,247 per year across 2022 and 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, a third higher than the nationwide average annual household expenditure of $75,172.

Massachusetts is "always at a high level of alert and awareness," Gov. Maura Healey said Thursday when asked if the Bay State had changed its posture at all in the wake of a deadly truck attack in New Orleans.

State officials will continue to 'make sure that our state and our communities are as safe as possible," Gov. Maura Healey said Thursday.

Unlike Friday's squeaker that kept Mike Johnson atop the rostrum of the U.S. House, Wednesday's vote that returned Ronald Mariano to the speaker's office here did not require very much

A progressive group is pushing the Mass. Democratic Party to “redefine what being a Blue State means” by embracing a higher minimum wage, Medicare for All, free education for all from p…

Gov. Maura Healey thinks fees paid to real estate brokers should be a thing of the past, voicing support for a policy idea that has support in the Senate.

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey filed a supplemental spending bill Monday, seeking another $425 million from a reserve account to keep the maxed-out emergency assistance shelter program running for the next six months.Healey’s office announced in November...

It was a little after 11 o'clock Tuesday morning when Gov. Maura Healey said on GBH Radio that she hoped President-elect Donald Trump would not do much that would disrupt