The Needham house was assessed at $549,300, but sold for nearly a million dollars. The buyer, who never lived a day there, would sell it 17 months later at a substantial loss in what may become the...

A Harvard University professor, political philosopher, and author, Allen said Monday she is laying the groundwork for a potential run for governor in 2022, making her the first Democrat to publicly...

Steve Grossman, the former Democratic National Committee chairman and three-time statewide candidate, is endorsing Pete Buttigieg for president.

Less than one year after the final branch of the much-heralded Green Line extension opened for business, the MBTA said a problem with the tracks has reduced train speeds to just 3 miles per hour...

Facing reelection, Chairman Gus Bickford denied he did anything wrong. "I was determined to stay out of this race," he said.

The Republican, who maintained the enduring support of his blue-state constituents through boom times, the Trump presidency, and the COVID-19 pandemic, will not seek a third term in 2022, he said...

Sonia Chang-Díaz, a seven-term Jamaica Plain state senator and a vocal critic of the Baker administration’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout, said Monday she is seriously considering a run for governor.

Experts worry that the rapid loss of top county election officials drains the system of experience and institutional knowledge at the very moment election deniers are looking to seize on any mistake,...

“The fact that our 25- to 40-year-olds are leaving the state, it’s not because of tax policy or they’re day-trading on Wall Street," said one state senator. “It’s because they can’t afford housing.”

He helped Ed Markey, Deval Patrick, and other Massachusetts Democrats win. Now he's headed to Washington, D.C.

Healey’s announcement could come as early as Thursday, according to several people with knowledge of her plans.

Since 2020, judges have released at least nine men from prison because of Boston police or prosecutorial misconduct, shoddy investigations, or evidence that pointed to someone else.

Behind the lab coats and the academic degrees, some of the country's top epidemiologists are lonely, grieving, and stressed.

Even as Massachusetts pushes Congress for more federal stimulus funding, new state data show it has only spent about half of the $2.7 billion it received last year through the federal CARES Act’s...

Legislators, transportation experts, and others expressed outrage over reports that some senior MBTA managers were working remotely in a time of crisis at the agency.

Attorney General Maura Healey, who rocketed to prominence as the state’s litigator-in-chief against Donald Trump before clearing the Democratic field for governor this year, officially captured the...

The Needham house was assessed at $549,300, but sold for nearly a million dollars. The buyer, who never lived a day there, would sell it 17 months later at a substantial loss in what may become the...

Massachusetts House leaders are pursuing a plan to revive and make permanent a pandemic-era renter protection law, a move that would bar landlords from evicting financially struggling tenants if they...

In response to a Globe request, Governor Maura Healey’s office denied access to e-mails and phone call logs, arguing that providing them would “unreasonably hinder the Governor in effectively...

Arroyo and Lara, two of the most influential and outspoken progressive voices on the City Council, became the first incumbent councilors in at least four decades to be eliminated in the first round...

Joe Abasciano is one of a handful of area residents under scrutiny following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

A legislative commission is recommending that political candidates be allowed to spend campaign funds on child-care expenses while they’re running for office, a move supporters say would make it...

The South Coast town is emerging as an early holdout against a new law requiring communities served by the MBTA to zone for more dense housing.

The MBTA can’t get its story straight. “The T should have better communicated to its riders who were told service would be faster after the 30-day closure,” an agency spokesperson said.

Secretary of State William F. Galvin fought off his second primary challenge in as many election cycles on Tuesday, besting Tanisha M. Sullivan, the president of the NAACP’s Boston branch, to capture...

Today across Massachusetts, there are at least 350 public testing sites, but they have a dizzying array of rules about price, hours, and whether an appointment is required.

House Speaker Ronald Mariano “conceptually supports” the proposal to make the option of voting by mail permanent, bolstering its chances for passage.

Supporters last week circulated invitations for a fund-raiser for the governor and Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito in Springfield.

For nine terms, Joseph Curtatone has overseen a city that has transformed into an enclave of progressive politics.

Many Massachusetts Democrats know Healey best for suing Donald Trump and going after corporate villains like Purdue Pharma. But some young progressive activists see Healey as a willing participant in...

State Auditor Diana DiZoglio called the House speaker's response “disappointing,” and said she intends to conduct the audit as planned. “We are not asking for permission,” she said.

“This has been an albatross around folks’ necks. There’s a lot of Black and brown people” affected by this, said one supporter.

The super-wealthy opponents of Question 1 have hidden behind Cape Cod cranberry grower Leo Cakounes, the face of the ad campaign advocating No on the measure. But even the hard-working Harwich...