So-called "bar advocates"  — private attorneys who take on the criminal cases of indigent defendants — have stopped accepting ...

The work stoppage “has pushed our justice system to the brink,” according to Boston Bar Association President Matt McTyge.

It’s amusing to watch Democrats complain about Republicans copying their strategy. The Trump White House is urging red states to redraw their congressional maps. The goal is to put more House seats in ...

The Massachusetts State Senate approved a bill Thursday that would ban cellphones in schools across the state. The legislation requires public school districts to adopt a cellphone-free policy by the ...

We’re going nowhere,” Sean Delaney, one of the lawyers, known as bar advocates, said during a demonstration at the State House.

From cell phones in schools, to reproductive care, to paying for bar advocates, the Massachusetts Senate checked several boxes on their list of priorities on Thursday.

On the eve of a traditional summer recess, the House and Senate sent Gov. Maura Healey measures instituting new legal shields to protect reproductive and gender identity care and investing ...

The spending plan lawmakers sent to Healey on Thursday "addresses timely issues through key, targeted investments," state ...

A group of advocates gathered at the State House Thursday to protest the deal, which they say, was constructed in a back room ...

A bill that would ban cell phones in all public schools statewide is advancing to the Massachusetts House after being passed ...

Massachusetts lawmakers have passed a funding bill that includes a pay raise for public defenders in hopes of ending a legal crisis ...

I say to you today and to the leadership, we’re going nowhere. Your ridiculous proposal that you put forward yesterday has only strengthened our resolve,” attorney Sean Delaney said at the ...