Massachusetts, Middlesex County | featured news

By Jon Winkler
jwinkler@nashobavalleyvoice.com
GROTON -- As the school year winds down, local administrators and teachers listened to the possibility of new ways to bring in funding.

CHELMSFORD -- Logan and Paisley Benjamin wandered around their soon-to-be new home, talking excitedly about how they're going to decorate their rooms.

LOWELL -- A nonprofit watchdog organization filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics alleging U.

By Katie Lannan
State House News Service
BOSTON -- Massachusetts -- which last year passed laws instituting reforms across the criminal justice system -- has the lowest incarceration rate in the country, according to a new report.

By Matt Murphy and Michael Norton
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
BOSTON -- Facing blame from Democrats for mounting public frustration with clogged roads and public transit problems, Gov.

By Matt Murphy
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
BOSTON -- The vast majority of Massachusetts workers experience some level of frustration and anger with their daily commutes, according to new polling that suggests residents view the state

By Katie Lannan
State House News Service
BOSTON -- State education officials plan to bring in outside researchers to analyze this year's MCAS test results for any "unintended consequences" of a question on the 2016 novel "The Underground

LOWELL -- Less than 24 hours before a devastating fire ripped through the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, Jessica Smith, 40, visited the centuries-old church with her family -- husband Tim, 43, and daughters Julia, 16, Norah, 14, and Evelyn,

By Jon Winkler
jwinkler@nashobavalleyvoice.com
PEPPERELL -- Margaret Scarsdale hugged her friends in celebration on Monday night after she was elected to serve on the Pepperell Board of Selectmen.

By Colin A. Young
State House News Service
BOSTON -- U.S. Sen. Edward Markey thinks he has a plan to bring the people of a politically divided nation together in opposition to a common enemy: robocalls.