GOVERNMENT & POLITICS

The resolution calls for the Massachusetts' Attorney General and the state's district attorneys to open criminal investigations into unlawful actions by federal immigration agents and cease 287(g) agreements, which allow local police to enforce certain aspects of federal immigration law.

Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Salem, held a recent campaign tour of western Massachusetts. He is challenging incumbent U.S Ed Markey in the Democratic primary in September.

About 30 business leaders and local officials from around Franklin County met with Eric Paley in Greenfield last week, telling the state's relatively new economic development secretary about the wonders and the challenges around the state's most rural county.

Town councilors in Amherst, Massachusetts, will vote Monday night on a resolution asking state Attorney General Andrea J. Campbell to prosecute federal ICE agents who violate state law.

The so-called Bright Act, is a $3 billion bond bill aiming to put at least $2.5 billion of that back into campuses across Massachusetts.

Funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which Immigration and Customs Enforcement falls under, ran out Saturday, causing a partial government shutdown. Springfield U.S. Rep. Richard Neal says Democrats have demands to try and reel in ICE.

Tracye Whitfield stood on the steps of Springfield City Hall Monday and acknowledged what she called mistakes regarding conflict of interest dealings with the city and her development company. She has since resigned from the company.

Massachusetts lawmakers propose to move an energy measure forward amid high bills, winter chill and a looming budget.

U.S. Representative Richard Neal said Thursday he plans to run for another term. The Democrat was first elected in 1988.

Massachusetts households rely on federal housing vouchers at a rate nearly double the national average.