A Massachusetts woman who won $4 million playing the lottery wants to use her good fortune to buy a new house.

Massachusetts' state spending has boomed since the onset of the pandemic, a Globe review found, far outpacing previous eras.

Massachusetts senators and the Office of the State Auditor faced off Tuesday in a tense meeting about a legislative audit.

In an interview with the Globe, Kate Walsh, the state secretary of health and human services, discussed how President Trump’s ...

Top House budget writers released a $425 million spending bill to fund state-run shelters that seeks to temporarily cap the ...

Senate Democrats forged ahead Wednesday with reforms and more funding for the state's family shelter system, adopting some ...

The Massachusetts House is expected to pass a $425 million bill to address the state's emergency shelter crisis. The bill includes new restrictions on eligibility for shelter, including a six-month ...

Black men and women, who serve at the highest levels of Massachusetts state government, gather at State House to discuss service, progress and what remains to be done.

A big increase in homelessness last year means Massachusetts now has the fifth-largest homeless population of any state in ...

House Democrats quietly hired a politically connected Boston law firm helmed by a former deputy state attorney general, ...

DEJA VU — Massachusetts House Democrats are set to debate a supplemental spending bill that includes new restrictions on family and migrant shelters with funds for the system already running ...

The legislation is designed both fund the system, which has run out of money, and to also dramatically shrink the number of ...