The state has been conducting searches for sex offenses and outstanding warrants — but not checks of past criminal activity.

The blue state recorded 316 'serious incident' reports at hotels, congregate sites, scattered sites and co-shelters within ...

The Clarion Hotel in Taunton is among the locations slated for inspection following Gov. Maura Healey's order to review all ...

The grants include funding for McGrath Highway in Somerville, station improvements at JFK/UMass in Boston and electric ...

Republican state Sen. Peter Durant said he welcomes the increased scrutiny — and called on the Healey administration to disclose the nature of the inspections, and details of what they reveal.

GOING LOCAL — Donald Trump’s imminent return to the White House alongside a Republican-led Congress in D.C. has some ...

"You have to start screening better at the door, and that’s what needs to be done," state House Speaker Ronald J. Mariano, D-3rd Norfolk, said.

The arrest of an illegal immigrant with fentanyl and a loaded assault rifle at a family shelter site in Revere is putting an intense new light on safety in ...

The Herald obtained the “Serious Incident Reports Tracker Data” through a public records request. Because the state withheld ...

An estimated $1 million worth of fentanyl and “a loaded AR-15 with ammo” was recovered from a room at the Quality Inn in ...

Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court ruled Wednesday the state can force communities to comply with the MBTA Communities Act ...