The governor is putting her liquor-license reform proposal on hold.

Improving transportation, expanding access to child care and making housing more affordable remain priorities for the Massachusetts governor.

Senate President Karen Spilka told reporters "keep your eyes peeled" for free community college funding in the Senate's version of the fiscal year 2025 budget.

The state’s budget chief says cuts are unrelated to soaring shelter costs.

Measures that clear lawmakers, gather more signatures and avoid any potential court challenges — which frequently disrupt ballot question campaigns — can go before voters at the Nov. 5, 2024 statewide election.

State Senate President Karen Spilka's to-do list includes has bills dealing with gun law reforms, child care costs and the housing crisis.

Administration officials say they can keep the shelter system running without making other budget cuts by tapping surplus funds.

A majority of state lawmakers support a bill to make child care more affordable and deliver better pay to early educators.

House Democrats were able to get a quorum of members together to push through a compromise on a long-overdue package they failed to wrap up before the Legislature shifted into a seven-week holiday stretch of informal sessions.

House Democrats showed up in sufficient numbers to establish a quorum and to prevent Republicans from ending sessions, as the GOP did last week.