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STATE HOUSE — A lawmaker from Gardner wants to keep sex offenders from playing Pokemon Go, the cell-phone based game that created a craze last month. Using location software, the game allows players to wander around in the real world to capture creatures known as Pokemon in the app-based game, while
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BOSTON — Commuter rail riders can expect some weekend closures starting next spring as the MBTA embarks on a $459 million effort to bring the sprawling system into compliance with a federal safety mandate. The commuter rail line leading to Providence, R.I., is the only line with positive train control,
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STATE HOUSE — A day after legislation aimed at reducing distracted driving died on Beacon Hill, new survey results were released indicating 68 percent of teenagers in the United States admit to using apps while driving. The survey, conducted by Boston-based Liberty Mutual Insurance and Students Against Destructive Driving, found that
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STATE HOUSE — House Speaker Robert DeLeo said Tuesday he regrets not getting a charter school bill done and thinks the complex and controversial education policy issue shouldn't have been left to be settled at the ballot box this November. Question 2 on November's ballot will ask
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BOSTON — The MBTA faces an additional financial hurdle this year as projected sales tax revenue for the transit agency has dropped about $32 million, increasing the urgency to find new cost savings. Layoffs have not been ruled out.
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STATE HOUSE — Education and religious advocates on Monday called for the relocation of a portrait depicting the state's twenty-third governor, referring to him as "a symbol of bigotry" for his party's support of a constitutional amendment they say restricts school choice. A member of
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STATE HOUSE — The economic development bill filed late Sunday and enacted right around midnight Monday does not include an expansion of a tax incentive aimed at helping low-income workers or authorization for the Massachusetts Lottery to expand into online gaming, according to the lead House negotiator on the bill. Both
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STATE HOUSE — House and Senate lawmakers came tantalizingly close to reaching a deal that would have limited the use of non-compete agreements between employers and employees, but couldn't overcome differences over how compensation for workers who sign such contracts would be negotiated. House and Senate leaders had been