The bill proposes that the Department of Public Health be able to set independent standards should the federal government ...

Delays and cancellations for ferry service to Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket could occur on Thursday and Friday due to Hurricane Erin, which is expected to cause strong winds and high surf along the ...

The first two years of Gov. Maura Healey's time in office were dominated by headlines of the state's migrant crisis. Some ...

The first-term Democrat said she believes that the records, including past violations or citations, were never intended to be ...

Gov. Maura Healey, state Sen. Julian Cyr and state Rep. Thomas Moakley visited the island Tuesday to tour Housing Nantucket’s new Wiggles Way development and the Sustainable ...

Weeks after Nantucket town leaders issued a litany of demands of the Vineyard Wind 1 project under construction about 15 ...

The measure, tucked into a spending bill, relates to historic records from the tens of thousands of people with disabilities ...

The money allows the state to “deliver resources that will help our first responders as they work to protect our communities, ...

Gov. Maura Healey signed legislation Thursday that tightens rules governing what patient information technology service providers and state regulators can share with out-of-state entities and requires ...

Maura Healey defends record on public corruption cases: ‘I have never looked away or stood down’ "There's not been a single case that's come to my office that we haven't taken in this realm." ...

Politics Maura Healey defeats Geoff Diehl to become first woman elected governor of Mass. The Democratic attorney general will also be one of the nation's first openly lesbian governors.

Maura Healey's path to the pinnacle of political power in Massachusetts had an unusual beginning. Her father was a captain in the U.S. Public Health Service, so Healey was born at the Bethesda ...