BOSTON — Massachusetts is still without a state budget, but probably won't be for long.Gov. Charlie Baker is back in Boston Friday after attending meetings Thursday with other governors in Rhode Island. The governor plans a meeting in his … more

BOSTON — Tufts Medical Center officials said Thursday they stand by the "best and final" contract offer they made to a union that called its nurse members into a strike Wednesday, as some local politicians urged the hospital to return to the … more

BOSTON — In a blockbuster announcement sure to send shockwaves through Beacon Hill, House Ways and Means Chairman Brian Dempsey is resigning from the Legislature to take a job at lobbying firm ML Strategies. more

BOSTON — Lawmakers meeting in secret to change the voter-approved marijuana law have reached "many, many, many agreements," according to one negotiator, but if they hit an impasse before a complete deal can be struck that would probably be … more

BOSTON — A Holocaust memorial that was vandalized and later repaired was rededicated Tuesday by city and state officials, religious leaders and survivors of Nazi death camps.A 9-foot-tall (3-meter-tall) panel on one of the six glass towers … more

BOSTON — An Iranian cancer researcher arriving in the U.S. to start work at a prominent Boston hospital has been detained at Logan International Airport.Boston Children's Hospital said in a statement Tuesday that Dr. Mohsen Dehnavi was … more

BOSTON — A multi-year, multimillion-dollar experiment to lower asthma rates, reduce smoking, and steel elders against the risk of falls appears to be drawing to a close in Massachusetts.Seeded with a one-time assessment of roughly $60 million … more

ORANGE — Lewis H. Starkey III, 53, of Wendell was arraigned on charges of murder of his apparent girlfriend and assault to murder her son, Monday afternoon at Orange District Court.Starkey, who was found Sunday after five days at large … more

BOSTON — Largely discarding spending plans they approved in the spring, the House and Senate on Friday sent Gov. Charlie Baker a $40.2 billion state budget that holds state spending flat, includes higher employer health care assessments, and, … more

BOSTON — The Massachusetts House and Senate scheduled formal sessions for Friday afternoon amid signs late Thursday pointing to a potential deal between Democratic … more