Massachusetts lawmakers on Thursday approved legislation that aims to better protect the identities and personal information ...

On the eve of a traditional summer recess, the House and Senate sent Gov. Maura Healey measures instituting new legal shields to protect reproductive and gender identity care and investing ...

The Bay State will attempt to bridge the economic divide caused by the federal government’s sudden seeming aversion to paying for scientific research with research funding of its own.

The spending plan lawmakers sent to Healey on Thursday "addresses timely issues through key, targeted investments," state ...

A group of advocates gathered at the State House Thursday to protest the deal, which they say, was constructed in a back room ...

According to a report by the Donahue Institute at the University of Massachusetts, cited by Healey’s office, $8.57 billion in annual federal research and development funding supports 81,300 jobs and ...

Governor Maura Healey announcing a new initiative today to create jobs, grow research and the economy across the state.

The state Senate OK'd a bill to require all public schools to ban cellphones. Are there exceptions, and how will local schools have to change?

Massachusetts public school students would be banned from using or holding on to their cellphones during the school day ...

The measure needs approval in the House before it can be sent to Gov. Maura Healey, who has said she would sign it.

Advocates and experts heaped praise on the state Senate on Thursday after the chamber approved a bell-to-bell prohibition on ...