Monday was Kate Walsh’s first day in semi-retirement. As Massachusetts secretary of health and human services, she oversaw a ...

Seven officers in the Boston suburb of Haverhill are on paid leave after a handcuffed 43-year-old man became unresponsive and died as police tried to restrain him outside a fish market. Officials ...

Finger-pointing has begun after nine people died and dozens were hurt in a fire at a Massachusetts assisted-living facility, ...

Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll and other state officials gathered in Boston Tuesday for a hearing on Governor Healey’s recently introduced Mass Ready Act.