Mass. emission reduction requirements and others were the subject of debate as the House worked through budget amendments ...

A push from a right-wing Billerica lawmaker to lower a series of taxes in Massachusetts spotlighted a contentious feud ...

MacDougall and other western Massachusetts high school coaches say they would prefer the sport mandate helmet use, even if it ...

Mike Kennealy, the first high-profile Republican to enter the Massachusetts governor’s race, is criticizing Democratic ...

Can’t we all just get along? In the state Legislature, you’d think that would be the mantra of the Republican minority in ...

Obama won reelection that day despite losing the state to former Massachusetts Republican Gov. Mitt Romney.

Mike Kennealy didn’t grow up dreaming of politics. He grew up in a middle-class family in Reading. His father was a ...

Amendments were filed to reduce the state sales tax to 5%, decrease the income tax to 4.5%, adjust the surtax on high earners ...

Longtime Massachusetts Rep. Jim McGovern said Thursday his daughter Molly McGovern, “the soul of our family,” had died ...