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Students at all state colleges and universities in the Nutmeg State will now be allowed to use the bathrooms and changing rooms that correspond with their chosen gender identity, and not their biological sex, the Connecticut Board of Regents announced this week. According to a board memo, the group also
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NEWTON — A key figure behind a ballot question that would repeal a law allowing people who say they identify with the opposite sex to use the public bathrooms and changing rooms they prefer says he was spat on and cursed at by an unidentified person who crashed a private event.
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ARLINGTON — School administrators in a town that played an important role in Paul Revere's midnight ride are responding to backlash from parents after they elected to eliminate a tradition in which third grade students dress up in colonial garb as part of a day dedicated to learning about
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A Maine lawmaker's bill that would allow doctors to assist the terminally ill in killing themselves didn't get a positive recommendation from a key legislative committee this week, signaling that efforts to legalize doctor-assisted suicide in the state may be dashed. According to the Portland Press
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BOSTON — Citing safety concerns, city officials announced Thursday they plan to close Lansdowne Street, a popular destination for fly balls clearing Fenway Park's left field wall, to vehicular traffic during days and nights when the Red Sox are playing home games. The precaution, however, has nothing to do
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CAMBRIDGE — The same City Council that passed an ordinance calling on Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump has now enacted a policy banning all city employees from flying on United Airlines. The ordinance appears to have been sparked by a viral April 10 video showing a United Airlines
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NEWTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey brushed back claims from a bipartisan group of Beacon Hill lawmakers that her office has failed to respond to formal written requests made last July seeking clarity on her directive banning so-called "copycat" assault weapons. "We've held numerous conversations
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BOSTON — State Representative Geoff Diehl let out a chuckle Monday morning when asked by a New Boston Post reporter how long it took him to read U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren's newest hardcover memoir, titled This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle To Save America's Middle