Massachusetts

Money is important in political campaigns. Money is ultimately speech. Campaign funds dictate how often a candidate can speak to the voters. Money matters.

A New Bedford man has been arrested after police say they found drugs in his home that were kept just feet from where his children were sleeping.

A man wanted for kidnapping and violently raping a woman in New Bedford last year has been added to the Massachusetts State Police Most Wanted list.

Nearly a dozen people from the Cape Cod and Rhode Island area were arrested Monday and charged in federal court in Boston in a wide-ranging heroin conspiracy.

Today is the official opening of the political season in the city of New Bedford. The nomination papers to run for office are there for the picking.

It doesn't feel like it here in Massachusetts, but it will be beach season soon and the beach is a great place to read a book.

The program will be tested in as many as a dozen communities.

Congressman William Keating performed what some said was an impossible task. He was able to pass HR 312 and pump life into the Wampanoag tribe's casino dream.

State representatives invoked the memories of people killed in distracted driving crashes on Wednesday before voting 155-2 to pass a bill banning motorists from using handheld cellphones and electronic devices behind the wheel.

Most adults living in Massachusetts can legally own a firearm if they want to do so. The process to obtain a license to own a gun is local and logical.