The Massachusetts State Ballot Law Commission ruled that two Republican statewide candidates cannot appear on the September primary ballot after finding they lacked enough valid nomination signatures.
Gov. Maura Healey paused applications for data center tax incentives approved under a 2024 law she signed, citing energy cost and environmental concerns.
U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Salem, knocked a reporter's phone away after the reporter asked whether he supports controversial Maine Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner.
The Massachusetts Parole Board has voted to release a man who beat his 2-year-old son to death with a plastic baseball bat more than four decades ago, drawing widespread criticism.
A handwriting expert testified that nomination papers for Republican attorney general candidate Michael Walsh and lieutenant governor candidate Anne Manning Martin showed evidence of hundreds of fraudulent signatures.
A statue of the Virgin Mary at a Catholic church in Boston was vandalized on Monday. The Catholic Action League is calling for a hate crime investigation.
