Mass. House

The legislation will likely head next to six-member House-Senate conference committee for resolution.

Officials say the legislation will drive down costs for consumers.

Labor groups applauded the House's passage Wednesday of a bill allowing unions to charge non-members for costs of services and representation.

Lawmakers want pharmaceutical industry representatives to bring more transparency to their pricing and lower costs for consumers.

Rep. Keiko Orrall will be succeeded in the House by her husband, Norman.

Massachusetts is the only state that has yet to put in place a permanent annual budget for the new fiscal year that began July 1. A House-Senate conference committee has been unable to resolve all differences between their respective versions of the roughly $41 billion spending plan...

BOSTON (AP) _ The Massachusetts House of Representatives has approved legislation that commits the state to the Paris climate accord even though the U.S. is no longer participating. The House voted 145-10 on Wednesday in favor of the bill sponsored by Rep...

The Massachusetts Senate has voted overwhelmingly to raise the minimum age for purchasing cigarettes and other tobacco products from 18 to 21 across the state. The higher age is already in effect in Boston and more than 100 other cities and towns...

The state's highest court says former Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi is entitled to the money he contributed into the state's retirement system, plus interest, before his conviction on corruption charges. But the Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday rejected arguments from DiMasi's attorneys that he should have continued to receive his state pension from the time he was sentenced in 20

(Boston) AP - House and Senate negotiators have reached an agreement on a final version of a bill designed to address the state's deadly opioid addiction crisis. The bill would limit initial opiate painkiller prescriptions to a seven-day supply and set an evaluation requirement within 24 hours for overdose victims seeking help at hospital emergency rooms...