Massachusetts will spend another $81.4 million on Big Dig debt in fiscal 2027, with payments on the troubled highway project scheduled to continue through 2038.
A Massachusetts Senate climate bill would ban plastic bags, impose new consumer fees, fund local projects, and authorize nearly $4 billion in possible borrowing.
The Massachusetts Senate took a more liberal stance than the House on climate, zoning, and other progressive priorities during the latest legislative session.
Massachusetts lawmakers included millions in pork-barrel spending in the $63.42 billion state budget. Here are 10 of the worst examples.
Governor Maura Healey has backed statewide phonics standards, graduation requirements and other education reforms opposed by the Massachusetts Teachers Association, drawing praise from some education reform advocates.
Major companies are cutting jobs or ending operations in Massachusetts, prompting concerns about costs, competitiveness and the state economy.
Thousands of indigent defendants last month did not have an attorney defending them, undermining their constitutional right to have representation and risking the dismissal of as many criminal cases covering a wide range of charges, according to court filings reviewed by the NewBostonPost.
Working as a top staffer for the Bay State's members in Congress can fetch a salary well in excess of…
America's experiment in off-shore wind-based energy is raising rates on residents and creating another burden for businesses in…
When it comes to absenteeism in public schools, it's not just students who aren't showing up. Sometimes it&…
A Rhode Island fund-raiser for abortion rights goes further than most other advocacy groups in expressing its support for the procedure,…
Judge Neil Gorsuch not only is a brilliant jurist and solid Constitutional originalist who is a worthy successor to Antonin Scalia — but…
Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, the Museum of Fine Arts, and other nonprofit colleges, hospitals, and cultural institutions are indispensable to Boston&…
A combination of dwindling revenues and soaring costs has put Rhode Island's capital city of Providence in such dire financial…
For many Americans, Fidel Castro is a feared figure who brought the United States as close as it's even been…
For most Americans, Thanksgiving is about what author Melanie Kirkpatrick calls the three Fs—family, feasting, and football. But, beyond the well-…
