Facing nine ballot questions, Bay Staters rejected efforts to throw out existing cannabis and gun laws, and to change an obscure tax cap law. They gave the green light to legislative transparency and ...

All eyes will now turn to the House and Senate, where negotiators need to decide in the next eight weeks whether to follow ...

In a national political environment favoring Democrats, Bay State voters chose to stick with Healey and Markey at the top of ...

We need to change how we judge whether transportation is working. Ridership matters, but it cannot be the only measure.

Passage of the ballot question now means a new nature conservation fund will be established to support clean drinking water, ...

Voters rebuffed an attempt to inject more competition into the state’s low-energy elections by shuttling all candidates ...

Local school districts, including the state’s largest district, are increasingly moving forward on their own, creating a ...

There's been "a dramatic increase" in early in-person voting, Galvin said at a State House press conference, while the mail-in voting rate is about the same as it was in 2022.

Boston Public Schools headquarters in Roxbury. THE REALITY OF public education in Boston is far from what Mayor Michelle Wu depicted in her recent State of the Schools address. Hiding behind the ...

MASSACHUSETTS VOTERS will face nine different ballot questions next week—a number we haven’t seen in over 30 years. Considering the sheer volume coupled with the varied and complicated issues these ...

Smaller lots reduce land cost, so they should produce less expensive homes. Sometimes they do. But smaller lots do not ...