Massachusetts

After Oregon and Colorado legalized the use of certain psychedelic drugs over the past few years, voters in Massachusetts rejected a similar proposal.

For the past several weeks, the beloved beaver has been embroiled in a court battle over whether she should return to the wild or stay at the rescue center where she has lived since she was a newborn.

Longtime U.S. Rep. William D. Delahunt of Massachusetts, a Democratic stalwart, has died following a long-term illness, his family announced.

In a court filing, Attorney General Gentner Drummond says it would have negative impacts on the state’s pork producers. The law bans other states from selling or shipping pork to the state if they do not meet Massachusetts hog-housing requirements.

Winds on Cape Cod could gust as high as 50 to 60 mph, forecasters said on Thursday. The area is now under a tropical storm warning.

At many U.S. hospitals, children and teens are stuck in the emergency department for days or weeks because psychiatric beds are full. Massachussets has a simple, yet promising solution.

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.