This week, Massachusetts residents are conserving heat in their homes to avoid exorbitant electric bills. Freezing weather ...

The state has been conducting searches for sex offenses and outstanding warrants — but not checks of past criminal activity.

Homelessness is on the rise everywhere in the country, including in Massachusetts, which had the third largest increase among ...

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey requested more funds towards state shelters and ordered an inspection of all state shelters ...

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey announced that all state-run shelters will be inspected and their policies will be reviewed ...

Massachusetts’ state-funded migrant-family shelter facilities have been rife with incidents of child rape, drugs, physical ...

Heavyweight libertarian economist Milton Friedman's famous observation was that you can't have open immigration and a welfare ...

Massachusetts’ state-funded migrant-family shelter facilities have been rife with incidents of child rape, drugs, physical assaults and other illicit crimes, ...

California, the most populous state in the U.S., continued to have the nation’s largest homeless population, followed by New ...

The Bay Area's homeless population grew 6% to an estimated 38,891 people in 2024, according to new federal data, extending a decade-long surge fueled by the housing affordability crisis, and drug and ...

Gov. Maura Healey downplayed the proliferation of crime in state-run shelters housing migrants and local residents after her administration released thousands of pages of records that show many ...

Catholic Charities of the Fall River Diocese operates an overflow shelter opened in bad weather when shelters CCFR operates ...