Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden said his office seeks to divert, rather than prosecute, certain low-level shoplifting offenders but ...

NEW YORK — As Zohran Mamdani mulls staffing up as New York City mayor, the Democratic nominee has an obvious starting point: people from the administration of former Mayor Bill de Blasio, who swept ...

Boston is a thriving city in many respects. But when so many families choose to raise their kids elsewhere, the city is not ...

Call it redemption or, at the very least, a chance for a second act. Not everyone gets one, but Steve Poftak just did.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz faces criticism from GOP lawmakers in his state after spending $430,000 in taxpayer money to prepare ...

A handful of school districts across the state already limit or ban cellphone use during school hours or on school property.

“A half a million dollars of taxpayer money to prepare the governor to go to his old stomping grounds seems exorbitant, ...

Several criminal defendants have been released so far, as public defenders continue to decline cases in Massachusetts due to a pay dispute.

Boston’s neighboring cities and towns should pay into a regional fund to help with costs of the homelessness and addiction ...

Minnesota taxpayers are on the hook for $430,000 in legal costs to outside lawyers who helped Gov. Tim Walz prepare for a U.S ...

The Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library was renamed the Shaw-Roxbury Branch Library at Nubian Square, in honor of ...

For years, overlapping crises of homelessness, addiction, and mental health have coalesced near the area of Boston known as ...