Massachusetts

Some people are critical — they compare it to the DARE program for alcohol and drug education that largely failed in the 1980s and '90s.

Healey, the Massachusetts Attorney General, overwhelmed her Republican opponent, Geoff Diehl, to put the governorship back in Democratic hands after Republican Gov. Charlie Baker didn't run again.

Members of Massachusetts's Wampanoag community say the people running the Patuxet living history site have done little to ingratiate themselves with tribes.

The Environmental Protection Agency recently issued a new warning that no level of PFAS in water is safe.

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals overdose deaths rose by 30% from 2019 to 2020.

A Massachusetts elementary school welcomes COVID-sniffing dogs. The animals were trained to detect COVID based on research showing that dogs could find a fungus on trees before the trees got sick.

Massachusetts lawmakers formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name three centuries after she was convicted of witchcraft in 1693 at the height of the Salem Witch Trials.

Many transgender people are poorly served by mainstream medicine, as providers often lack an understanding of gender issues.

The states were not counted equally well for population totals used to determine their share of political representation and federal funding for the next 10 years, a new Census Bureau report shows.

This comes after an extremely rapid rise in December, where the number far exceeded previous pandemic records.