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Because of the pandemic, the building has been closed to the public for more than 700 days.

Massachusetts lawmakers are in store for another pay raise.

Lawmakers began efforts Wednesday to resolve differences in hands-free driving safety bills passed by the House and Senate.

It's unethical for lawmakers to collect a pay when federal workers can't during the government shutdown.

A handful of mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses would be repealed and the state's approach to juvenile offenders overhauled in a sweeping criminal justice bill released Friday by House and Senate lawmakers.

The six House and Senate lawmakers negotiating a complex overhaul of the state's sentencing and criminal justice laws have reached a tentative agreement.

Hoping their call for stricter guns laws will reach decision-makers in Washington, D.C., Bay State students on Wednesday implored state lawmakers to curb gun violence.

A recent investigation by WCVB-TV in Boston found that Massachusetts state lawmakers have taken hundreds of free trips over the past five years, paid for by private organizations and foreign governments.

DARTMOUTH — Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson is working with state lawmakers to immediately file and pass legislation that will strengthen the partnership between local, state and federal law enforcement in their shared mission to enforce laws and keep citizens and legal residents safe...

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON — Almost three weeks later than they had hoped, lawmakers on Monday struck an accord on marijuana policy that would tax retail pot sales at a maximum rate of 20 percent and paves the way for those sales to begin in just under a year...