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Massachusetts is jumping into the national debate on the affordable housing crisis with a proposal to tax high-value property sales.…
Dozen of pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Yale University after sweeping arrests at Columbia last week
Columbia canceled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at Yale and the gates to Harvard Yard were closed to…
On April 8, a total solar eclipse will visit parts of 15 U.S. States, beginning in northwest Mexico and ending…
Robot dog company celebrates its first shooting: ‘We are relieved that the only casualty that day was our robot’
A robotic dog is being thanked by state police in Massachusetts for helping avert a tragedy involving a person barricaded…
‘What, and destroy $2 billion worth of property?’ Mass. beach community undaunted after storm washes away 3-day-old $600,000 sand dune project
A Massachusetts beach community is scrambling after a weekend storm washed away $600,000 in sand that was trucked in to…
Mass. gov. rips ‘decades of inertia and inaction’ as she pitches $4 billion housing fix: ‘There’s a reason people think about North Carolina or Texas’
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey on Tuesday pitched what she said was the state’s biggest-ever investment in its housing stock to…
Casino revenues soared to $66.5 billion last year, powered by slot machines and sports betting
America’s commercial casinos won $66.5 billion from gamblers in 2023, the industry’s best year ever, according to figures released by…
Father of the abolitionist movement Frederick Douglass honored in Massachusetts Statehouse with sculpture
A bust of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber on Wednesday, the first bust of…
2023 was the year of reckoning. The hottest year on record. The year it became clear how dramatically we’re endangering…
For the first time in the United States, turbines are sending electricity to the grid from the sites of two…