Deborah Becker

It's Election Day. Radio Boston talks with WBUR reporters Deborah Becker and Miriam Wasser about how things are unfolding in Massachusetts and checks in on tight races in New Hampshire, Maine and Connecticut.

Across the state there are a mix of reactions: jubilant Trump supporters, and Harris supporters who are wondering what's next. WBUR reporters Deborah Becker and Amelia Mason speak to voters on both sides to get a sense of how the commonwealth feels about the results.

As state, county and city law enforcement leaders evaluate their legal options to refuse assistance — or offer it — to federal agents, competing tactics could emerge. And immigration advocates warn different policies among government agencies will breed confusion.

State and national leaders are taking aim at some Massachusetts officials amid the roiling debate over immigration and potential mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump.

Robbie Parker lost his daughter Emilie in the Sandy Hook School shooting more than a decade ago. Parker is still battling Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist who claimed the shooting was staged.

For the first time in decades, drug overdose deaths are decreasing in the U.S. Federal data show a roughly 15% drop from 2023 to 2024. What's driving the decline?

Deborah Becker Emiko Tamagawa | December 11, 2024 Acclaimed author Claire Keegan's 2021 novella “ Small Things Like These ” was recently

Resume Worcester officials and police union leaders are reacting to the scathing Justice Department report released this week about the city's police department.

The management consulting firm McKinsey and Company will pay $650 million over work it did for Purdue Pharma that federal prosecutors say helped fuel the opioid crisis.

Massachusetts leaders responded to President Biden's decision to leave Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev off the list of death row prisoners granted commutations Monday.