Cicadas will be returning in 2025, and this time there will be a brood in Massachusetts. "In 2025, 17-year periodical cicadas, also known as Brood XIV, will emerge in parts of the United States," The Nature Conservancy states on its website.

Some Massachusetts hospitals and clinics are posting privacy rights in emergency and waiting rooms in Spanish and other languages. Meanwhile, Florida and Texas are requiring healthcare facilities to ask the immigration status of patients and tally the cost to taxpayers of providing care to immigrants living in the U.

Eighteen states, including Massachusetts, are challenging Trump's order with a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Lawyers for Civil Rights also sued, alleging Trump's order is unconstitutional based on the language of the 14th Amendment. The civil suit was filed on behalf of an expectant mother and immigration advocacy groups La Colaborativa and the Brazilian Worker Center.

Massachusetts Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr discusses Healey's new budget proposal, state spending and the state auditor's new ability to audit the state legislature.

Gov. Maura Healey (D-MA) said she supports “apprehension of criminals in our communities" when asked about recent ICE arrests in her state.

Massachusetts AG sues to block Trump's order ending birthright citizenship, claiming constitutional violation.

Eighteen states and the ACLU filed lawsuits seeking to prevent President Trump from denying citizenship to children born in the U.S. to non-citizens.

Democratic-led states and civil rights groups filed a slew of lawsuits challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's bid to roll back birthright citizenship on Tuesday in an early bid by his opponents to block his agenda in court.

BOSTON (AP) — The governor of Massachusetts plans to convene a statewide graduation requirement council after voters in November decided to ditch the state’s standardized tests as a high ...

United States Attorney Leah B. Foley announced on Thursday that Katherine Ferguson has been appointed as the First Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.

On Monday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Leah Foley was named the new U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts by the new administration under President Donald Trump.