massachusetts politics

Armenian Americans of Greater Boston are calling for action on a civil conflict in Azerbaijan, where 120,000 Armenians under a blockade are running out of food and medicine.

Planning to vote by mail? Massachusetts election officials are reminding voters to get those mail-in ballots in by end of the day today so they arrive by Election Day. The United States Postal Service recommends voters allow for seven-day delivery by mail. If you do not get it mailed on time, you can use a ballot drop box. Mail-in ballots…

As they closed the blinds, flipped their office calendars to September and took off for an August recess early Monday morning, the House and Senate left Gov. Charlie Baker with a whole heap of work to do before he can even think about an August breather. Here is a list of the bills on Baker’s desk as of Tuesday...

One bill centers on improving mental health care. Another centers on equity in the cannabis industry. And lawmakers are still unable to agree on an economic development bill.

Beacon Hill lawmakers will take up legislation on Wednesday intended to protect abortion providers as well as people from out-of-state who travel to Massachusetts for care. Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, reproductive rights have been left to the states. Last month, a sweeping reproductive rights bill passed through the Massachusetts House of Representative and now...

Senators on Beacon Hill will discuss on Wednesday how to protect providers as well as people who travel to Massachusetts for abortion care.

In a 136-17 vote, a bill that would declare access to reproductive health care as state law passed the Massachusetts House Wednesday night. A number of women representatives took tot he House floor, arguing in favor of House Bill 4930.

More than a dozen representatives, most of them women, took to the House floor one-by-one Wednesday afternoon to argue in favor of a bill designed to ensure access to reproductive health care, to support the patients who need it and to protect its providers in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that erases the nearly 50-year-old right...

Massachusetts democrats held their convention this past weekend at the DCU Center in Worcester where Attorney General Maura Healey won an overwhelming endorsement for governor, further cementing her frontrunner status in a primary race against state Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz.

Democrats will gather in Worcester this weekend for the annual convention – with one of the biggest issues being to select a gubernatorial candidate.