A top Senate Democrat expressed skepticism toward Gov. Maura Healey’s plan to boost state spending by 7.4% in fiscal year 2026 as Massachusetts faces constrained tax revenue growth and increased ...

A new fund is providing up to $5,000 to Boston families who have an immediate family member who died from an opioid overdose.

The Waltham-based group MassResistance says it has drafted text for similar measures to be filed in other state legislatures, including in Iowa, Michigan, Montana, and Kansas.

The two aircraft plummeted into the icy Potomac River after colliding, killing everyone onboard the plane and helicopter, officials said Thursday.

We’re not seeing the progress we need to regain the ground our students lost during the pandemic,” said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, of the NAEP test ...

Fourteen members of the U.S. Figure Skating team, six of whom are affiliated with the Skating Club of Boston, were on the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac River.

An urgent search and rescue mission is underway on the Potomac River after an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter in Washington, D.C. The passenger jet was carrying 64 people and ...

Research has found that rising temperatures in the Arctic are weakening weather systems that normally trap the cold around ...

If you've watched cartoons like Tom and Jerry, you'll recognize a common theme: An elusive target avoids his formidable adversary. This game of "cat-and-mouse"—whether literal or otherwise—involves ...