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BOSTON (AP) — A contract negotiated with the region's largest transit union will save the cash-strapped Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority more than $80 million over the next four years, officials said Monday. Under the deal, the 4,100-member Boston Carmen's Union Local 589 will forgo a 2.
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BOSTON – The number of newborn babies in Massachusetts diagnosed with drug withdrawal is rising faster than the national rate, according to new data released this week by the state's Health Policy Commission. Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, as the condition is called, has risen 27 percent in the past four
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BOSTON — Hours ahead of the time the Bay State's Electoral College members are due to cast their ballots for Democrat Hillary Clinton, hundreds of protesters rallied outside of the State House, urging electors in other states not to cast their vote for Republican Donald Trump. Hoisting signs and
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BOSTON — A letter penned by President Thomas Jefferson in 1803, marking the passage of the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution updating the rules of the Electoral College system, was one of several historic documents on display outside Beacon Hill's House Chamber just prior to the convening
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STATE HOUSE – With Hillary Clinton's loss to President-elect Donald Trump still raw for Bay State Democrats, party leaders and electors on Monday – without mentioning Trump's name – rallied Clinton supporters to regroup and pick up where her campaign left off fighting for causes like "economic justice&
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BOSTON — After emerging from a meeting Monday afternoon with House and Senate leaders, Governor Charlie Baker told reporters that any changes made to the state's new marijuana law must "abide by and live up to the intent of the voters." The recreational use of marijuana became
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Churches in Massachusetts may still have to allow biological men who identify as women to use the women's bathroom in some cases, state officials say. The state's new transgender law applies to churches if they are hosting a purely secular event open to the public, the
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Trump's efforts to fill the top jobs in his incoming administration bring to mind those of Dwight Eisenhower, who was the last person elected president without having earlier served in elective office.
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