Because restriction of firearm possession by those deemed too young to handle them safely outside of supervised settings is ...

Ballots are already printed with Oliver's name next to Minogue's as a joint ticket, and over 200,000 voters have already cast ...

Elizabeth Warren and John Deaton. MASSACHUSETTS VOTERS are poised to return Elizabeth Warren to the US Senate, according to a new poll. Warren, a 75-year-old Cambridge Democrat and national voice of ...

For the first time since Barack Obama was president, Massachusetts did not land in dead last in Ballotpedia's biennial ...

THE MBTA’S campaign to replace the entire Red and Orange Line fleets with brand-new subway cars might be old enough to enroll in high school by the time it’s completed. T officials on Thursday ...

CommonWealth Beacon's live debate on ballot Question 3 at Northern Essex Community College Haverhill Campus. (Leise Jones/CommonWealth Beacon) PERHAPS THE MOST controversial of the nine ballot ...

Gov. Maura Healey and Republican challenger Mike Minogue clashed over rising energy costs, abortion rights, and ...

The change, if implemented, would “dramatically and inaccurately favor southern states where many northern residents, sometimes called snowbirds, spend some or all of the months of December through ...

Despite clear evidence that cannabis has had negative health effects in Massachusetts, our state has done little to survey ...

Voters in the deep-blue state are sometimes open to a gesture toward bipartisanship through a Republican governor that could, at least in theory, square off against a Democratic supermajority in the ...