The Legislature this week agreed to use nearly $500 million in surtax revenue to deliver a major boost to K-12 school funding, a move that some see as fulfilling the voter-approved mission of the ...

Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...

Long before it became a symbol of academic prestige, Harvard University was a frontline player in America’s fight for ...

One resident says he's watched his neighborhood transition from vibrant and charming to an open-air drug market.

Jachym, a rising senior at UMass who was working as a congressional intern, was killed in a triple shooting in Washington, ...

An intern for U.S. Rep. Ron Estes and UMass Amherst student was shot and killed in Northwest D.C. on Monday night, Metropolitan Police reported.

A University of Massachusetts student who was interning in Congress was killed in a shooting in Washington, D.C.

In the state that served as the model for Obamacare, advocates and health care workers fear the Trump administration is dismantling the program piece-by-piece. The massive tax and spending cuts ...

It's a move that some see as fulfilling the voter-approved mission of the surtax. Yet others worry the funds aren't being used as intended: to launch new education and transportation initiatives.

This weekend marks the start of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s season at the iconic Berkshire music center Tanglewood in ...

Much of Boston used to be marshland like this, including the Back Bay, South Bay, Mill Pond and more. Those areas were filled ...

We owe it to the Massachusetts legislature this year to commend it for meeting its deadline to pass the annual state budget.