LEGISLATURE

House Speaker Ron Mariano wants more answers before he moves forward with funding for expanded passenger rail service between Pittsfield and Boston, Massachusetts.

Legislative action to create a new public authority that would oversee a western Massachusetts passenger rail expansion would be "very premature," House Speaker Ronald Mariano said Wednesday.

A group representing volunteer law enforcement officers in Massachusetts says new training standards could "cripple" auxiliary police programs across the state.

With less than three weeks before the new fiscal year begins, negotiators are continuing talks on a compromise budget using elements of the different spending plans passed by the state House and Senate.

Starting next summer, immigrants without legal status in Massachusetts will have access to state-issued driver's licenses thanks to a policy muscled through by lawmakers this week over Gov. Charlie Baker's veto.

An unofficial list of candidates for the Massachusetts primary and general elections has been released.

Candidates needed to win the backing of at least 15% of delegates at the Democratic convention in Worcester to keep their campaigns alive over the summer, when they will be able to make their case to voters statewide.

'Need versus what you want' at play in bond bill decisions.

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has vetoed a bill that would allow immigrants without legal status to get driver's licenses. But the legislature gets the final word.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Friday vetoed a bill making immigrants without legal status eligible to seek state-issued driver's licenses, saying the Registry of Motor Vehicles, an agency that he oversees, doesn't have the ability to verify the identities of potential applicants.