National Grid and the United Steelworkers reached a tentative agreement to end a six-month lockout of 1,250 union workers, the utility and the unions announced late Wednesday night. 

The most popular governor in the nation begins his second four-year term Thursday. But what do we really know about Baker and what drives him?  

Amid the pomp and circumstance of the first day of the Legislature?s 191st session, signs appeared of the challenges Speaker Robert DeLeo will face in the year ahead.  

Republican leaders said the president asked them and top Democrats to return to the White House on Friday for a second briefing on border security as the government shutdown continues.  

Here?s a roundup of some of the things the Democrats who are taking over the House on Thursday are planning to look into.  

The bigger test is whether Mitt Romney will actually use some of his new power as a US Senator to rein in President Trump.  

President Trump hit back at Senator-elect Mitt Romney Wednesday morning, and he got some support from an unlikely source: Romney?s own niece.  

Speaking at Beacon Hill on Wednesday, Senator Warren says she isn?t fazed by pundits who predict that voters outside of Massachusetts won?t back her as a presidential contender.  

Accounts describing episodes of sexual harassment and demeaning treatment in Bernie Sanders? 2016 campaign have circulated in recent weeks. 

The man, believed to be in his 60s, was found unresponsive in Danehy Park by Cambridge police Wednesday night and later died at a hospital. 

Crews were still at the scene Wednesday morning trying to put out hotspots, officials said.