Beacon Hill witnessed something rare this past week — a rare break from the Democratic Caucus in the Massachusetts Senate.

Veteran political reporter Gin Dumcius of CommonWealth Beacon previewed the upcoming legislative session and other key 2025 topics in Massachusetts politics.

There are a handful of places where competitive congressional, state and local-level contests will be happening throughout 2025.

Next week will be a busy one around the U.S. Capitol Complex, starting with Monday’s counting and certification of the 2024 ...

The provision, a home rule petition, was introduced by state Sen. Jacob R. Oliveira and state Reps. Daniel R. Carey and Mindy ...

A growing number of Republicans say they’re confident that the votes in the 2024 presidential election were counted accurately in the wake of President-elect Trump’s victory in November, ...

The past 12 months have seen the collapse of Steward Health Care, which sent shockwaves through the state’s hospital sector.

While some were marginal shifts, the data available for New York showed a rise from 27 to 37 and Texas from 89 to 98. Both states have seen high-profile killings in 2024, including a woman burned to ...

The Electoral College is a formal process spelled out in the Constitution that was largely overlooked until 2020.

Billed as “the year of democracy,” 2024 may ultimately be remembered as the year voters sent incumbents packing. What might ...

Despite Secretary of State Bill Galvin's predictions of record turnout in this year's presidential election, 145,000 fewer ...

In November 2019, Massachusetts residents first got a third gender option to put on their driver’s licenses. The “X” marker is commonly used by nonbinary people, though it can be selected by anyone ...