Sam Drysdale

BOSTON — The state's emergency assistance shelter system cannot insist that families provide third-party verification of certain information — like proof of their family ties or whether at least one of them is a Massachusetts resident — before immediately placing them into shelter, the Supreme Judicial Court decided on Thursday.

BOSTON — The state's emergency assistance shelter system cannot insist that families provide third-party verification of certain information — like proof of their family ties or whether at least one of them is a Massachusetts resident — before immediately placing them into shelter, the Supreme Judicial Court decided on Thursday.

State Representative Jerald Parisella, a Beverly Democrat, was nominated Tuesday for a District Court judgeship.

Nova Scotia donates a Christmas tree to Boston each year in a commemoration of gratitude for Boston's emergency aid to Halifax after a devastating 1917 explosion

More than 200 low-income families are eligible for down payment and closing cost assistance to purchase their first homes with the launch of a public-private program intended to close homeownership

The Governor's Council on Wednesday certified the results of Massachusetts's electors for the U.S. offices of president, vice president, and U.S. senator and representative.

| By Sam Drysdale | State House News Service

BOSTON — The head of the state’s K-12 education board expects the state will be sued for failing to assure there’s adequate and equitable learning taking place in schools, after voters overwhelmingly supported a new law this November that got rid of the requirement that students have to pass the MCAS exam to graduate. Meanwhile, the state’s teachers unions that pushed the initiative say they’re open to implementing a new statewide standard.

More than 200 low-income families are eligible for down payment and closing cost assistance to purchase their first homes, with the launch of a public-private program intended to close homeownership and racial wealth gaps in Massachusetts.

More than 200 low-income families are eligible for down payment and closing cost assistance to purchase their first homes, with the launch of a public-private program intended to close homeownershi…