The poet laureate will serve as an ambassador for the arts to promote creative expression and inspire writers across the state.

Administrators at Uxbridge High School found a swastika drawn in pencil in the girl’s bathroom Wednesday afternoon. The post Swastika drawn in Mass. school prompts warning about increase in hate ...

Roses are red, violets are blue. Bet you didn't know the modern Valentine's Day card originated in Massachusetts, did you?

Massachusetts Maritime Academy’s new training ship, the Patriot State, is heading to St. Thomas this week after stops in ...

Two things can both be true, and that was on full display when new results were released last week from national student ...

Even though Maine already has 31 official state symbols — including a soil type, soft drink, fossil and insect — there seems to be a tendency to focus on what we don't have. Take for example two ...

Three new state symbols are proposed this year – reptile, amphibian and dog – which would bring Maine's total to 34.

Massachusetts’s students are back to being the top in the U.S. for all categories in a test known as the “Nation’s Report ...

Gov. Maura Healey plans to close a state-operated public health hospital in Canton, her administration confirmed Tuesday afternoon. The Massachusetts Nurses Association, which first disclosed the ...

(WWLP/SHNS) – Gov. Maura Healey announced a plan Tuesday to pump at least $2.5 billion into facilities at the University of Massachusetts, state universities and community colleges by the middle ...

Massachusetts must pay the federal government $2.1 billion over the next 10 years to resolve a debt after the state under former GOP Gov. Charlie Baker's administration mistakenly used federal ...

Governor Maura Healey announced a bond bill filed Tuesday that will be the largest proposed infrastructure investment in Massachusetts’ public higher education system in decades. An Act to Build ...