Massachusetts Senate

It's all about ICE everywhere you look in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts these days, and little else seems to matter. Especially when voters are angry, and you need a distraction. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain," a great wizard (or fraudster) once said when he realized the people had figured out he couldn't deliver what he'd promised. ...

A big win for Massachusetts felines happened this week. The Senate approved Montigny's bill to ban a barbaric practice done on cats. Here's what happens next.

A compromise bill aimed at helping to grow the legal cannabis industry and making it more equitable emerged just before midnight Sunday after nearly a month of negotiations and quickly passed through both the House and Senate.

The last person to be falsely convicted of being a witch in Massachusetts in the 17th century has been pardoned by the Massachusetts Senate.

The Massachusetts Senate voted Thursday to legalize sports wagering in the state, but lawmakers will have to reconcile the many differences between the Senate's bill and the one that passed the House last summer.

The Senate on Wednesday supported the permanent adoption of COVID-era voting allowances like expanded early voting and voting-by-mail, among other policies.

With the state Senate on the verge of voting to make mail-in balloting permanent in Massachusetts, advocates and some lawmakers are trying to expand access to eligible voters behind bars.

'It's not what everybody wants, but it's the kind of compromise that hopefully people can recognize is forward motion.' - Sen. William Brownsberger

Today the Massachusetts State Senate approved several local economic development projects sponsored by Senator Mark Montigny (D-New Bedford) as part of its latest economic recovery bill, S2842, the senator's office announced in a media release...

Cities and town leaders across Massachusetts are trying to build budgets with little information about local aid from the state.