Beacon Hill

Employees revealed that there had been multiple warnings within the RMV about backlogs of tens of thousands of notices that prompted little or no action.

Pending legislation includes banning tackle football till the eighth grade and okaying the online sale of lottery tickets.

New Bedford Public Schools is set to receive an additional $14.5 million in the upcoming fiscal year.

Senator Mark Montigny (D-New Bedford) has filed legislation on Beacon Hill that calls for eliminating the practice of declawing pet cats.

The Massachusetts Legislature passed its Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20) budget, which invests in programs and services across the Commonwealth.

Why don't you politicians search as hard for the answers to our real problems as you do to find offended victims-in-waiting?

With the annual state budget now 16 days late and negotiatons are still unresolved, House Speaker Robert DeLeo indicated a compromise may not be reached this month.

A proposal to develop a statewide code for the use of police body cameras, and to exempt their footage from public record, is meeting pushback.

Like so many on the list of "What's missing in New Bedford," the ferry service to the Cape and islands ignores an otherwise perfect opportunity.

A legislative committee has approved a bill that would establish a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags at supermarkets and other retail stores.