EDITION 1 The Competition Problem Welcome to CommonWealth Beacon's Election 2026 newsletter run. The most generous thing we can say about ...

Massachusetts isn’t alone in the rising share of households facing energy insecurity around the country, yet the state, as ...

Pollsters asked about the proposed law to eliminate the time limit for filing civil lawsuits related to child sexual abuse. Respondents overwhelmingly said they would strongly (60 percent) or somewhat ...

Democracy reform is personal for me. The first time I walked into the State House, I was a 16-year-old youth organizer ...

Question 3 moves the final decision from the elections that most people ignore to the ones that have high participation ...

Question 3 would eliminate the ability of Bay State parties to police the use of their party labels by candidates in elections and sever the only meaningful accountability link between ...

Gas prices are displayed at a station near Boston University. (Jordan Wolman/CommonWealth Beacon) THE HOUSE REJECTED a suspension of the gas tax on Wednesday afternoon, turning down an affordability ...

More than $38 million in debt relief will be distributed to 69,527 people in eastern Mass. through a partnership involving the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association.

The law focuses on the root causes of gun violence to make all Massachusetts communities safer – and it is working.

Even before Gov. Maura Healey entered the heart of campaign season — one that has been defined by skyrocketing energy costs ...

Community colleges, with their enrollment buoyed by tuition-free policies in recent years, "remain the largest source of new transfers at the state universities," said Mario Delci, associate ...