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Massachusetts lawmakers will hold an invite-only oversight hearing on COVID-19 vaccinations for children at the Museum of Science Monday.

Lawmakers will introduce a decade-long pilot program Friday to establish at least two safe injection sites in Massachusetts, a place where people can inject illicit drugs under medical supervision. Reps. Dylan Fernandes and Marjorie Decker, Sen. Julian Cyr and the Massachusetts for Supervised Consumption Sites Coalition will host a virtual briefing at 1 p.m. on the legislation. The proposed 10-year…

Massachusetts lawmakers will introduce a controversial pilot program Friday to establish at least two safe injection sites in Massachusetts.

A state representative from Boston pitched a strategy Tuesday to repair some of the damage the pandemic has done for education: allow any student who will soon graduate to stay in school for an additional year.

While Massachusetts lawmakers have been slow-walking proposals to legalize sports betting over the last three years, the revenue and jobs that the activity could provide have passed Massachusetts by, supporters told the Joint Committee on Economic Development on Thursday. Legal sports betting has proliferated around the country, including in nearby states like Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire and New York….

Boston sports fans are hoping this is the year they’ll be able to legally gamble on sports. Lawmakers held a hearing on the issue Thursday.

Massachusetts lawmakers will consider nearly 20 bills related to sports wagering during a virtual hearing Thursday.

A bill temporarily extending a host of pandemic-era policies that would otherwise expire in connection with next Tuesday’s termination of the COVID-19 state of emergency cleared the Massachusetts Senate on a voice vote Thursday afternoon. The bill keeps measures including the authorizations for mail-in voting, remote public meetings and takeout cocktails for several months. Sen. Michael Rodrigues, who chairs...

The Massachusetts Senate will take up a bill that seeks to extend some pandemic-era policies beyond next week’s end of the COVID-19 state of emergency Thursday.

Feel like cussing at a sports game? Spitting on the sidewalk? These weird laws are still on the books in Massachusetts and, along with Boston College law professor Dan Farbman, we looked into why.

New England lawmakers were quick to condemn Monday’s supermarket shooting in Boulder, Colorado, which left 10 people dead, including a police officer. “I am horrified by the news coming out of Colorado,” Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut said on Twitter. “I will continue to monitor the situation as I pray for the Boulder community and the families and friends…

One of the victims was a police officer. Police responded to a shooting at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colo., on Monday. The suspect, a 21-year-old male, is in custody.

House lawmakers may have been exposed to someone testing positive for COVID-19 while they sheltered at an undisclosed location during the Capitol siege on Wednesday.

After 16 hours, Massachusetts lawmakers just wrapped up a marathon session around 4:45 a.m.

Massachusetts lawmakers passed a number of bills overnight in a marathon session.

In a marathon session overnight, Massachusetts lawmakers passed a number of bills.

A transportation bill and changes to college sexual violence laws were among the things highlighted by lawmakers overnight.

Massachusetts lawmakers are in store for another pay raise. Two years after Gov. Charlie Baker certified a raise of 5.93 percent for the 200 members of the House and Senate for the 2019-2020 session, the governor in a letter to Treasurer Deb Goldberg on Wednesday advised her that a 6.46 percent increase is warranted in the base pay of legislators…

New England’s mostly Democratic legislative delegation reacted with joy on social media on Saturday as Joe Biden was projected as the winner of the presidential election by NBC News and other national news outlets. “Thank God,” said outgoing U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts. “A big congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris,” said U.S....

Rep. Anastasia Williams said last week on the House floor that she was called a “house slave” by a lawmaker who she respected, comparing the term to being called a distinctive racial slur. Williams did not name the lawmaker at the time, but Rep. Marcia Ranglin-Vassell eventually identified herself in a Facebook post to deny that she used the word…