State House News Service

Lawmakers are requiring all schools and early education centers ensure that children have access to safe drinking water.

Senator Montigny's bill would ban conversion therapy and require doctors, teachers, and other "mandated reporters" to report cases to the Department of Children and Families.

Supporters hope that lobsters that are currently sent away for parts processing will instead be processed in Massachusetts.

More senior citizens in Massachusetts are turning to assisted living or living at home with assistance, and those choices are exacerbating problems in the nursing home industry.

Baker said he thought lawmakers were close to sending him a bill last session

Housing Authority directors told lawmakers, there are 160,000 people on waiting lists for affordable housing.

University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan laid out a plan on Monday to create a new "online college" for adult students.

The House passed its first significant bill of the young legislative session Wednesday, unanimously endorsing a bill that adds $135 million in mid-year spending.

A commercial fishing group in Rhode Island has voted in favor of a funding package the Vineyard Wind project proposed to help mitigate the possible impacts from the 84-turbine wind farm proposed for waters south of Martha's Vineyard.

January revenues drop at both MGM Springfield and Plainridge Park.