The Massachusetts House passed a sweeping early literacy reform bill this week by a vote of 155-0 — despite opposition from the state's largest teacher's union. As the legislation moves to the Senate,

Dozens of educators in the Whitman-Hanson school district could lose their jobs in the middle of the year because of a surprising budget issue.

Our maps show which Massachusetts communities will be most impacted by the loss of SNAP benefits and how our state compares to the rest of the country.

A fight over whether a Massachusetts city can display Catholic statues on its new police headquarters follows similar litigation around the country.

The National Weather Service has issued a Wind Advisory for all of southern New England through 5 a.m. Saturday. They are calling for frequent westerly winds between 25 and 35 mph, with some gusts as high as 50 mph.

A bill up for consideration on Beacon Hill would open the door for firearm manufacturers and distributors to be sued for the harm their products cause, igniting a debate over what gun violence exactly means.

An aide to Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey was arrested for cocaine trafficking after investigators intercepted packages with the drug slated to be delivered to a state office building where he worked, prosecutors said.

The movie house, located at 24 Patriot Place in Foxborough, Massachusetts, first appeared in 2008, when the Massachusetts-based media company National Amusements chose to open their second theater in Foxborough, according to this report by the New England Real Estate Journal.

At 12:41 a.m. on Friday, the National Weather Service released an updated wind advisory valid from 2 p.m. until Saturday 5 a.m. for Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket counties.

The break-in happened at the retail store of the Mass Firearms School after 11 p.m. The video shows the thieves smashing the glass of the store's front door with a hammer, and two of them run inside. They are seen leaving the same way they came in, with two guns in hand.