“You often need a martyr or someone very committed to act first,” Margaret Levi, a professor emerita of political science at ...

The tension between Britain and its restive Massachusetts colony had been simmering for years. But 250 years ago, war ...

Suggesting state and local officials might take cues from the federal government and embark on an improper approach to ethics, the State Ethics Commission chief wants lawmakers this spring to ...

SPRINGFIELD — Friday, members of the Puerto Rican community and city dignitaries gathered on the steps of City Hall to ...

In less than a week's time, more than a dozen University of Massachusetts Amherst students who were preparing for careers in ...

A Massachusetts community mourned the deaths of over 200 people who were killed in a nightclub roof collapse in the Dominican Republic early Tuesday morning.

A federal judge says she will halt the Trump administration from ending a program that allowed Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans ...

Observers of her political rise — and some who have sparred with her — say Gov. Janet Mills’s refusal to bow to President ...

The Ancient Order of Hibernians was founded in 1565 in County Kildare, Ireland. The first AOH Division in America was founded in the coal-mining area of Pennsylvania in 1836. In 1838, the AOH ...

Mutual aid is the brigade of volunteers mucking out basements after a flood, the church basement food pantry staffed by ...

House Democrats used a procedural maneuver that essentially put on ice a freshman Republican’s push to ban transgender ...

Suggesting state and local officials might take cues from the federal government and embark on an improper approach to ethics ...