Politics

Incidents in Worcester and Framingham drew attention to a small group that’s also piped up in other New England meetings.

The Mass. Department of Public Health says it will be monitoring operations at all nine Steward hospitals by next week, amid uncertainty about the system's future.

Like the system in Oregon, the initiative here proposes state-licensed centers for supervised psychedelic use.

Angered over the serious financial challenges at Steward Health Care that could jeopardize the future of safety net hospitals in eastern Massachusetts, top House Democrats insisted Thursday they will not bail out the company, which last week said it doesn't plan to shutter any facilities after securing a new funding stream.

Haley's Massachusetts campaign chair says she's still in the fight.

Wednesday’s deadline showed how much interest (or lack thereof) lawmakers have in making certain changes. But not much else.

Some members support the step, while others aren't close to backing it.

The longtime appellate judge is also the governor's former partner.

“Black Boston’s past is so much more than Crispus Attucks and the one-time homes of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X,” said Taneshia Nash Laird, a keynote speaker.

The Massachusetts House and Senate have passed bills aimed at cracking down on untraceable weapons known as ghost guns, and strengthening the state's gun laws.