Emma Platoff

News that the city plans to close three schools and consolidate two more comes as Wu seeks a second term as mayor

Amy Carnevale has led the state GOP since 2023, when she ran on promises to restore unity to a chaotic, divided party and get its finances in order.

Wu is the newest member of a tiny but growing group of prominent women politicians who have delivered children while serving in office.

Asked about a key State House chairman who oversaw a major piece of legislation while dating a powerful lobbyist whose clients had a stake in the

Lt. Gen. Scott L. Rice , who last month quietly left his role leading the state's beleaguered emergency family shelter system, departed on “very good terms,” he told the Globe in an interview Thursday.

For many who work with Massachusetts' newest arrivals, the announcement came as a crushing disappointment. For migrants staying in Massachusetts shelters, it brought frightening uncertainty.

A bipartisan group of good-government advocates is pushing to overhaul the Massachusetts Legislature's generous stipend system, which currently

Kraft, the younger son of billionaire New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, has spearheaded his family's philanthropic efforts, and is the current chair of the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts, a historic civil rights organization based in Roxbury.

Josh Kraft, the longtime nonprofit leader and younger son of billionaire New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft , has filed paperwork with state campaign finance regulators to run for mayor of Boston as a Democrat.

The Trump administration's announcement of a pause in federal grants and loans Tuesday, as it conducts an ideological review of spending, sent