STATE REPRESENTATIVE

State Rep. Jon Santiago is joining the growing pool of candidates in the race for Boston’s next mayor. Santiago, an ER doctor at Boston Medical Center, has been vocal about the state’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. He has pressured leaders in Massachusetts to move more quickly and tighten restrictions and weighed in on the evidence that shows the...

A fourth candidate jumped into the race for mayor of Boston: state Rep. Jon Santiago, an emergency doctor.

House Speaker Robert DeLeo is forming a special committee to investigate claims of inappropriate conduct against Rep. from Dedham

Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito has been in public office ever since she was a selectwoman in Shrewsbury in the mid-1990s. She has a lower profile than Gov. Charlie Baker, but among municipal leaders, she is well-known. And she knows how to road trip.

Maine’s Democratic House Speaker Sara Gideon says she’s challenging veteran Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, whose political future has generated an enormous amount of attention over the last year.

Maine’s Democratic House Speaker Sara Gideon says she’s challenging veteran Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, whose political future has generated an enormous amount of attention over the last year.

Presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is responding to criticism about her past work advocating against gay rights by recording a new YouTube video. The nearly four-minute-long video released Thursday shows Gabbard standing outdoors in the snow apologizing for statements she made that were hurtful to LGBTQ people.

As she campaigns throughout the Merrimack Valley, MA-3 candidate Juana Matias sees a lot of herself in the people she meets. An immigrant from the Dominican Republic, she arrived in the country with her family in 1992 speaking no English. Growing up in Haverhill, Maassachusetts, a shadow day at the court system in that city planted the dream of becoming...

Talks are in the works for a new commuter rail line from Boston to Concord, New Hampshire.

A New Hampshire state representative is facing charges that he sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl last summer.

Eric Schleien, a 29-year-old New Hampshire state representative, has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl.

Andy Sanborn, a Republican state senator from Bedford, New Hampshire, is planning to run for Congress.

A New Hampshire state representative who was no stranger to controversy over his 10 terms as a lawmaker has died, the House Speaker’s spokesperson confirms.