Experts in Texas make a case for mental health funds; New Yorkers will receive paid leave for prenatal care; Colorado explores psychedelic therapy; and more.

(WWLP) – As the wind gusts pick up, the number of power outages across Massachusetts is increasing ... portions of Hampshire ...

Leigh Davis was sworn in at the State House on Wednesday morning. She begins her first term representing Southern Berkshire.

National homelessness experts and local leaders say personal questions exacerbate racial disparities in the ranks of the nation’s unhoused.

A common thread that ran through 2024 was the way Cape Ann towns, all considered MBTA communities by the state, each planned ...

Toward the end of the new year, a salary transparency bill that was signed into law by Gov. Maura Healey in 2024 will take effect. As of Oct. 29, 2025, employers in Massachusetts that have 25 or more ...

Other state laws going into effect in 2025 will boost wages, restrict social media for children and make insulin cheaper.

The four-day heavy metal, rock, punk and alternative music festival at the Highland Festival Grounds celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2024 and had a highly-anticipated lineup scheduled for the day, ...

The United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable ...

Oregon was the lone state in which officials opted not to conduct a new count of people living unsheltered in nearly all its ...

Parents in some counties in Massachusetts pay more than $26,000 per year for child care, according to the Department of Labor. Massachusetts made progress on all of the recommendations from the ...

Secession, or the threat of it, wasn’t just a 19th-century phenomenon. Throughout the 20th century, it bubbled to the surface from time to time like a fizzy soft drink. The strangest — and most ...